PDT MACRON PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE MEDICAL STAFF WHO FACE THE COVID-19 OUTBREAK

USPA NEWS - The Head of State went to the Mulhouse Field Military Hospital, whose visit lasted three hours. Mulhouse, (located 517 km from Paris and 475 km from Germany), was overwhelmed by the COVID-19 cases. Indeed, the Grand Est region is the most affected in France, since the spread of COVID-19 which has accelerated following the week of the Evangelist "MegaChurch" (From 17 to 24 February 20) which had gathered nearly two thousand (2000) people, in the Bourtzwiller district of Mulhouse. This event of one of the largest Protestant evangelical churches in France had invited faithful from all over France, including overseas, for a week of fasting and prayer, had not been canceled or postponed. Since the beginning of the epidemic in the Grand Est, 580 people have died including "people confirmed virologically positive for covid19 coronavirus as well as people not tested but whose death is reported to be a coronavirus infection." This development confirms that the situation is getting worse.We publish the entire speech of the head of the French State in several sequences, as Emmanuel Macron dressed the French Nation further the visit of the military hospital installed in Mulhouse PART 2

PRESIDENT MACRON INSISTS ON THE CAPACITY IN FRANCE TO BE PART OF NATIONAL SOLIDARITY ALREADY ENGAGED------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- « Solidarity also national which plays at full. Several transfers have been organized to less affected regions. Thirty patients were taken to other hospitals in the region. Three operations carried out by the Armed Forces made it possible to transfer 18 patients to other regions. And tomorrow, a medical train will be chartered to transfer around twenty patients again. The mobilization of our health systems is total. I want to greet all the staff of the hospital, hospitals in the region, but also all the city doctors that I met earlier and with whom I was able to discuss, and the entire health sector , medico-social and social. The Mobilization is also of all state services. I want to salute the prefects who, alongside health officials, have mobilized to ensure the continuity of public services. All the state services are mobilized, our police, our gendarmes, our customs officers, all of our officials, our teachers, to whom I also want to say thank you because they continue to take care of our youth in a physical way for the children of our caregivers but of all the others too, tirelessly. I would also like here to thank all of the local communities, the region, the department, the agglomeration and the city and all of their staff who have not ceased to be also at the front. Finally, I would like to thank our German, Swiss and Luxembourg neighbors, who have taken care of around 30 heavy patients, as we did a few weeks ago for our Italian neighbors. This is also Europe, the real one, this solidarity. "Said Head of State Macron

THE EXEMPLARY MOBLISATION IN THE GREATER REGION IS SAID PRESIDENT MACRON "Here, in this first region so heavily affected, this mobilization was exemplary. The organization has collectively made it possible to improve to provide an essential response. Here, we have worked together to heal, to save. It is by activating all the levers of solidarity and by working together that we will be able to face in Corsica, where the situation is already very difficult, then tomorrow, in Hauts-de-France, in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, in ÃŽle-de-France, also in Overseas, where extremely tense situations are happening. In each of the territories I have just mentioned, the situation every day is more difficult and the same organization is being put in place It is also being put in place because there is a tremendous national mobilization, and I want to congratulate you and thank you, my dear compatriots. The health reserve first, with more than 40,000 registered, allows to bring arms, supports to women and men and women who re-enlist to help. More than 100,000 of you have signed up on the "I want to help" platform, too, in their own way, with their means, to provide help in the midst of this crisis. It is this fraternal France that will allow us to hold on and to overcome. "Recognized President Macron

"THE CAREGIVERS ARE ALL ON THE FIRST LINE IN THIS WAR" SAID PDT MACRON----------------------------------- "But behind this organization, there are always and above all women and men. I am here in Mulhouse, by their side, to pay tribute to them. In this war, there is in the front line all of our caregivers , whether they work in hospitals, in the city, in nursing homes, in our establishments welcoming people with disabilities, in home services, whether they are doctors, nurses, paramedics, pharmacists, nursing assistants. Everyone is on the front line. Eyes are surrounded, fatigue is present. The anxiety is there for themselves, for their colleagues, for their family. I saw it today with great force. she is behind them, grateful. She pays homage every day. She is by their side at all times. With exceptional courage, they stand up. They save lives. They do everything in their power. We will be there too to meet what we owe, beyond to this recognition and respect. I asked the government to provide a clear and strong short-term response for all health care workers as well as for all civil servants mobilized, in order to increase the overtime worked in the form of an exceptional bonus to be able to support financially this recognition. But more generally, our caregivers who are fighting today to save lives yesterday fought, often to save the hospital, our medicine. A lot has been done, probably not fast enough, not hard enough. My commitment this evening for them and for the whole nation is that at the end of this crisis a massive plan of investment and upgrading of all careers will be built for our hospital. This is what we owe them, this is what we owe to the Nation. This answer will be profound and lasting. "President Macron paid tribute to the dedicated and tireless caregivers who count their hours to save lives in increasingly difficult and difficult conditions in hospitals and retirement homes in France. THOSE WHO CONTINUE TO WORK ARE ALL ARE IN THE SECOND LINE IN THIS WAR, SAID PDT MACRON "I also want to salute all of the women and men who are on the second line and who allow our caregivers to care, and the country to continue living. It is the women and men who transport, who host, who help out , who clean, who repair. It´s our farmers, it´s all of the women and men who are in the food sector, of basic necessities, it´s our deliverers, our cashiers and our cashiers, "is all this working people of France who fights, who, I know it, sometimes is anxious, often for themselves and their families, but allows the country to live. I want to thank them very much tonight and bring them all the support of the Nation. I know the expectations there are also to be better protected and the government will do its utmost to provide all the answers with the constraints that are ours, always in transparency. Friday, will gather i all the social partners and a lot of work has been done in recent days to, sector by sector, provide the best answers to organize work, to better protect at work. I want to thank all the employers in all these sectors who have done a lot there too to keep the nation alive. This second line is essential and I want to thank all our compatriots who, with courage, every day, allow the country to continue living in this context. Their work, their commitment, their courage are also our pride. "Said President Macron. THOSE WHO MAKE TELEWORK FROM THEM ARE ALL ARE IN THE THIRD LINE IN THIS WAR SAID PDT MACRON------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "And there is the third line, those who can telecommute or stay at home, stop their activity for a time or who are forced to do so because the industry has closed and who also contribute to the effort of the Nation by staying at home, by respecting the rules of containment which have been decreed by the government, by reducing contacts, by fighting against the spread of the virus. Thank you, my dear compatriots, for this part that you take to the collective effort. It is essential to protect our health system, to slow down this virus and protect all of our caregivers, our resuscitators, to save as many lives as possible, to also protect our elders and the most vulnerable. . " said President Macron.

"WE ARE ON WAR ON THE PEAK OF THE COVID-19 EPIDEMIC" SAID PDT MACRON------------------------------------ "Everyone has a role, and in this context our armies have a role and I want to thank them, and I will finish by there. Our armies are already mobilized as here, in Mulhouse, with this field hospital in which I have just been also to render and by mobilizing the entire health service. This hospital was set up in record time by the health service and the army. The 5 army training hospitals are also mobilized, where patients Air and sea transport operations have already been carried out by supply aircraft, including Air Force Morphée operations, the amphibious helicopter carrier Tonnerre, and other support missions. Everywhere, I know, our soldiers are ready and determined.------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are at war and faced with what is looming, this peak of the epidemic which is before us, I decided, on a proposal from the Minister of the Armies and the Chief of the Defense Staff, to launch the Resilience operation. This operation, distinct from the Sentinel operation which continues to focus on the fight against terrorism meanwhile, this Resilience operation will be entirely devoted to aid and support to populations as well as support to public services for deal with the Covid-19 epidemic in mainland France and overseas, in particular in the health, logistics and protection fields. In this context, I have already decided to immediately deploy the amphibious helicopter carrier Mistral in the southern Indian Ocean and from the beginning of April the helicopter carrier Diksmuide will position itself in the Antilles Guyana area by support of our overseas territories.´ said the President of the French Republic . "EVERY CITIZEN HAS A ROLE TO PLAY" SAID PDT MACRON------------------------------------------------------------------- "My dear compatriots, Ladies and Gentlemen, I will come back in a few days to give you a full picture of the situation, to tell you about the decisions taken for the coming weeks and the more profound decisions that I intend to take for the nation. But this evening I wanted to be there, alongside our carers, alongside our armies, alongside our patients, to say that the whole Nation is engaged, engaged in this fight. Everyone has a role to play, each citizen, because the French nation is a block and because in this war we have to be a block, to be united, proud and grateful for the role of each and to hold unity and courage will allow us to overcome. We are only at the beginning but we will hold out .We will hold because we will not give up anything. We will hold because we have the strength. Long live the Republic and long live France! Thank you. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. "Concluded President Macron