Staff have begun reshaping the site to make it viruses, such as cell showers and converting rooms to allow for greater distance between staff and establishing a place to eat because restaurants in France are recently closed, according to Notre Dame’s rector, Monsignor. Patrick Chauvet.
“It’s hard work. The climbers will have to be calm,” Chauvet told reporters outdoors on Monday. “We can’t have COVID there to cause them stress.”
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Cleaning paintings at the iconic church are expected to resume next week after being suspended in mid-March after the outbreak of the pandemic. Chauvet says the maximum staff will remain at nearby vacant hotels so they don’t have to take public transport.
He added that the priority will be to dismantle 250 scaffolding that had been installed for a previous renovation task and that were severely broken in the April 2019 fire.
French President Emmanuel Macron and we hope the cathedral will reopen in time for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
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“We will do everything we can to meet this deadline,” he said last month, calling Notre Dame “a symbol of our resilience, our ability to succeed over demanding situations and stand.”
Once the scaffolding is removed, the stones will have to be analyzed to see which ones want to be replaced. The debris and the old solid beams that burned like ignition wood will have to be removed from the vaults, according to the chaplain of Our Lady Brice of Malherbe. An umbrella design will then be built to protect the site, which is now surrounded by upper barricades.
The Associated Press contributed to the report.