The Scientific Council on Saturday called on the government to introduce “significant restrictions” in the face of the risk of the virus spreading during the New Year’s festivities.
No new turn of the screw in sight. The Minister of Health Olivier Véran responded via the online media Brut this Saturday to the opinion of the Scientific Council calling for “significant restrictions” to limit the risks of the spread of Covid-19 during the New Year by refusing any new measures . “We want to push vaccination and really rely on this major tool,” he said.
The Scientific Council called on the government to introduce “significant restrictions” against the risk of the virus spreading during the New Year’s festivities in a notice published on Saturday.
The Minister of Health explained via a video interview posted online that because of the low “effectiveness of the measures (of restrictions) today” and because the executive “has chosen not to deprive all French people of freedoms because 5 million of them have not yet been vaccinated “, the executive has chosen to act, faced with the spread of the Omicron variant.
However, he chose a different strategy than putting in place new restrictions. “We are boosting vaccination and transforming the health pass into a vaccination pass,” he said.
“You must never insult tomorrow”
Olivier Véran recalled the threat posed by the new variant, whose number of contaminations continues to climb in France and among our neighbors. “The Omicron, if it starts to circulate, it is brought to circulate very quickly, very strongly, with an extremely violent wave, but extremely fleeting”, he warned.
The minister, also a doctor, however specified that the situation remains evolving and that the restrictive measures can always be brought to be reinforced.
“You should never curse tomorrow. I have already said ‘today is not planned’ and two weeks later I get referred to my video saying to me, ‘but there are two weeks, you told us that ‘”, but yes, but there are new variants, it is constantly changing the situation”, he recalled.
“We are always in anticipation and at the same time in adapting our response according to the degree of threat. The truth of today may not be that of tomorrow,” he said. declared, cautious.
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