A new government health defense council is being held this Wednesday morning to decide on new restrictive measures, in particular to deal with the English variant of Covid-19, which is circulating in France.
What measures to adopt to deal with the new English variant of Covid-19, already responsible for at least 1% of contaminations on French soil? This is the question the government will be working on this Wednesday morning during the Health Defense Council.
According to our information, the executive should decide between two options. The most likely – national – option to date is the implementation of a curfew from 6 p.m. across the country. At the top of the State, some evoke, in addition, the track of a weekend confinement. But this one is far from unanimous:
“I do not feel that this lead is the most likely,” said a senior government source.
The second option is local, it is that of a toughening of measures in certain new departments, in conjunction with the prefects. This would signify the continuation of a territorialized management of the epidemic with the establishment of new curfews from 6 p.m. in new departments, while the measure is currently only implemented in 23 of them.
Certain hypotheses already ruled out
In addition, several hypotheses have already been ruled out by the executive. According to our information, a national reconfinement is not for example on the agenda, as the government spokesman Gabriel Attal had already suggested on Monday.
The government also excludes any new closure of schools at this stage, despite calls from certain scientists, such as Djilali Annane, head of the intensive care unit at the Raymond-Poincaré hospital in Garches, who spoke on Tuesday evening on our antenna. “difficult decision to take, but which is justified because of the significant impact of school” in the circulation of the virus.
“We have an absolute will to preserve the school. It is essential for us. The Prime Minister and the President of the Republic are on this line”, one assures one this Tuesday evening at the top of the State.
Thoughts “until the last moment”
The track of closing school canteens, once considered by the government, also seems to be receding, even if nothing has yet been acted on.
“The president leaves time for reflection until the last moment,” warns a framework of the majority.
These measures will be debated this Wednesday morning during the Health Defense Council and then announced Thursday during the government’s weekly press conference.
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