The coronavirus epidemic has killed at least 19,718 people in France.
The French will not find “not immediately and probably not for a long time” their “life before” the coronavirus crisis, warned Sunday Edouard Philippe by presenting “the big rules” which should lead to deconfinement from May 11.
“We have not emerged from the health crisis”, warned the Prime Minister again, while admitting that “we are scoring points against the epidemic” and that “the situation is gradually improving, slowly but surely”. “Imagine that because the situation would have stopped getting worse and it would start to improve, the epidemic would be behind us, that would be a mistake”, he insisted during a press point at the Matignon hotel.
The Prime Minister also recalled that the economic crisis would be “brutal” and “has only just begun”. “Production has almost stopped, consumption too,” he noted, saying that “never in the history of the world has such a massive, general stop been experienced.”
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The coronavirus epidemic has killed at least 19,718 people in France since the beginning of March, or 395 more in 24 hours, but the number of patients hospitalized and in intensive care continues its slow decline, indicated Sunday the director general of Health.
A total of 12,069 deaths were recorded in hospitals (+227) and 7,648 (+168) in nursing homes (Ehpad) and other medico-social establishments, said Jérôme Salomon at a press conference in Matignon .
Respect for confinement “generally very satisfactory”
The police have carried out “13.5 million checks” since the start of containment put in place on March 17 to combat the epidemic of new coronavirus, and have found “more than 800,000 offenses,” announced Sunday. Edouard Philippe.
Thanks to controls, “respect for confinement was overall very satisfactory,” said the Prime Minister at a press conference, noting “an immense decrease in the number of trips” everywhere in France, as well “to shops, to grocery stores, to transport stations “than” to offices “.
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