Jean Castex arrived this Friday afternoon at Roissy airport, after attending a Defense Council focused on the spread of the coronavirus epidemic in the world, which is giving rise to calls for strengthening border controls.
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In this tourist season and when 15 million people have been infected on the planet, including 4 million in the United States, the Prime Minister will make a tour of the devices deployed for departing and arriving passengers. Accompanied by the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, and Transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, he must visit in particular the filtering by geographical areas of origin and the screening centers, before speaking around 4:15 p.m., while a potential tightening of controls could intervene. The president of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, pointed out in the morning on RMC and BFMTV of "serious insufficiencies"in the measures put in place in airports qualified as “Covid strainers”. "It would be necessary to establish tests before entering the territory", pleaded Gérard Larcher.
A Defense Council was held on this subject Friday morning at the Elysee Palace around Emmanuel Macron, Jean Castex and some ministers - Olivier Véran, Jean-Michel Blanquer for Education ... - and administration officials. The authorities are worried about the loosening of respect for barrier gestures and the increase in cases among 20-40 year olds, weakly symptomatic, which could cause an acceleration in the circulation of the virus. Government information campaigns will be implemented this summer on this subject. In France, the number of cases continued to increase with "more than 1000" Thursday and "10 new outbreaks" of infection, according to the Directorate General of Health (DGS).
