By Murielle Bouchard
Published on 20 Mar 21 at 8:11 am
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Be careful not to pronounce the word ” reconfinement “, The former Prime Minister Edward Philippe, now mayor of Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) reacted in a video posted on social networks, Friday March 19 at 9 p.m., “to the measures of restriction and freedom” announced by his successor in Matignon the day before, Jean Castex. ” A bad surprise “, According to Édouard Philippe who however justified them.
“Bad news”, “bad surprise”
It will be necessary to bring out the exit certificates, Saturday March 20, 2021 in the city of Océane and Édouard Philippe, who until July 3, 2020 managed the Covid-19 crisis from Matignon, knows how to justify such measures is not easy. Especially since “his” city, Le Havre, presents a stable situation with an incidence rate well below the maximum alert threshold.
Twice on the video posted on the city’s social networks, Friday 19, Édouard Philippe uses the term “” bad surprise “to evoke what he will not call – like his successor – a re-containment but” measures restriction and freedom ”.
Édouard Philippe updated the figures concerning the incidence rate: “188 per 100,000 as of Friday March 19”, the maximum alert rate being 250, the unstoppable re-containment with a rate of 400.
The pressure on health services in Le Havre is certainly old, lasting, heavy, but it is not unbearable.
Édouard Philippe justifies with a distance
To justify these measures, Édouard Philippe makes hypotheses, and maintains before each explanation that it is ‘what he believes’. A marked distance from measures that he knows are difficult to accept: “I am perfectly aware of the heaviness of these decisions, of the shock. “And to think more particularly of the traders that the City and the urban community” will continue to help. ”
What has, I believe, justified the measures of the government is rather the dynamics in which we find ourselves, the fact that the epidemic … is starting again and again very quickly. Last Monday we were only 120 cases (incidence rate in Le Havre).
Video. Édouard Philippe reacts to the reconfinement
Rouen with the incidence rate of 330 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and “very strong” pressure on intensive care services is the second justification according to Édouard Philippe for this third confinement.
A large vaccination center in April
“Hope lies in vaccination”: Édouard Philippe is therefore in a hurry. “I am one of those who want it to accelerate and develop” 39,623 injections were carried out on the territory of the urban community (270,000 inhabitants) and the president of the metropolis of Le Havre wants to go quickly as soon as he will have the doses! He therefore underlined that in addition to the Monod and Flaubert hospitals and the Bléville village hall, “in April we will provide a large vaccination center which will make it possible to speed up the process. “
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