Since a few weeks, warning messages or barrier gestures, fashionable expression to fight against Covid 19 seems to be row aside. And for good reason, the stakes of a presidential election quickly brushed aside the dangerousness of the Coronavirus, as the health authorities sang to us. Even the police officers who gave themselves heart to the respect of the wearing of mufflers by motorcyclists (who drove and not those who were towed !) have also seen their zeal fade away.
And yet, crowd movements caused by the election campaign and opposition protests are also an opportunity for the transmission of this virus. According to what is generally accepted, keeping a distance from each other would greatly reduce contamination. But how could this be done throughout this period when the role of the candidates was rather to flatter the crowds and where the opposition formed compact human groups to attack the symbols of the state? ?
Since its appearance in China late 2019, this disease has already caused the death of more than 2,9 million deaths in the world over more than 135 million people infected. Despite the rapid development of several vaccines, she continues her devastation. In date of 11 avril 2021, so yesterday, the virus did 93 victims on 7515 cases identified since its onset (source : https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/benin/ ). These figures make Benin a relatively spared country but without prevention, this situation may not last. On the occasion of the presidential vote this Sunday 11 avril 2021, mufflers were distributed as a reminder that the parenthesis of neglect and laxity is over. More, after how many new preventable contaminations ? The next few weeks will tell.