In Montauban, during a press conference, the Head of State spoke of the health crisis and estimated that “we will have to take new decisions in the coming days, no doubt,” to fight the virus.
Nice and Dunkirk have been confined to the weekend for a few weeks. Ile-de-France, where the health situation is deteriorating day by day, will it experience the same fate soon? Or even other stricter measures? Asked during a press conference in Montauban – where he found Pedro Sanchez for a Franco-Spanish summit – Emmanuel Macron called for looking at “the reality of the epidemic, city by city, territory by territory: that’s what we are doing.” “We will have to take new decisions in the coming days, no doubt,” to fight against the Covid epidemic, he also indicated.
“We all have to reconcile several dimensions of the life of our nation: protecting the weakest, (…) protecting our health system, protecting against the distress that goes with being isolated, (…) protect by educating our children and our young people who need it, protect by also allowing the economic and social life to continue “, continued the Head of State by arguing that” it is this unit which is necessary at all times, constantly, take into account in an appropriate and proportionate manner ”.
“Give visibility to our fellow citizens on the calendar”
“The master of time is the virus, unfortunately,” added the President of the Republic, who also indicated that he “asked the government to work so that, in the coming days, we can restore visibility. to our fellow citizens on the calendar ”.
The number of Covid-19 patients hospitalized in critical care in Île-de-France reached 1,152 on Monday at 11 a.m. according to the regional health agency (ARS), or more than at the peak of the second epidemic wave, in the fall .
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