A re-containment but under different modalities.
Listening to certain political and medical eminencies, it is already no longer the time to wonder if the country will be put back under cover, but when and how to do it in the most efficient way possible.
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Sunday evening, the LR president of the Grand Est region Joël Rottner did not go through four ways on Twitter.
"I am certain that we are going towards containment," he said, adding that it will be "different from the first".
"I ask that we can discuss it before it is too late […], rather than waiting another two weeks or three weeks for the government to open discussions with local elected officials, with trade unions and employers", Jean Rottner insisted Monday morning at the microphone of Franceinfo.
"Less hard" and "short-lived", according to Professor Delfraissy
For him, as for the President of the Scientific Council Jean-Michel Delfraissy, this reconfinement will have to be differentiated and more flexible than last spring thanks to the experience of the first wave.
Invited on RTL, Professor Delfraissy put two options on the table: extend the curfew "both in its schedules, in its extent at the national level", and at weekends.
Or, directly reconfine.
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"Short-term", if implemented quickly, this putting in a bell "would allow both work, which must be accentuated in teleworking, and would allow to maintain a school activity and an economic activity".
Jean Rottner, who is also an emergency physician, recommends "to insist more particularly" on areas where "there are more than 1,000 positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants".
Deconfinement would also be managed in another way.
"We would go through the curfew," he says.
#Coronavirus - "A difficult, even critical situation: an estimated 100,000 daily positive cases, we have been surprised at this brutality for 10 days", specifies the President of the Scientific Council, Jean-François Delfraissy, guest of #RTLMatin with @BSportouch pic .twitter.com / CMgXmDR4JD
- RTL France (@RTLFrance) October 26, 2020
As a reminder, on Friday, Emmanuel Macron judged that it was too early to foresee "local or broader reconfigurations".
While the whole of Europe is barricaded, he said he wanted to wait "until the middle of next week (to have) a clearer vision of the impact of the measures" taken.
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A more than dangerous wait, also to believe Eric Caumes, head of the infectious diseases department at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris.
"The curfew is a risky bet", he recalled on FranceInfo in the face of an epidemic that he considers "out of control for several weeks already".
"If we are not effective, there will be no other solutions, we will have to confine [...] to set the record straight as the Irish and the Welsh did", he said. he asserted in a fatalistic tone.
Covid-19: "I think that living with this virus does not necessarily mean locking yourself up", explains Prof. Eric Caumes, but there "we no longer have a choice" pic.twitter.com/tCfvOteJ1K
- franceinfo (@franceinfo) October 26, 2020
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The latest report from Public Health France published Sunday evening is not there to reassure.
While 2,500 Covid patients are now being treated in intensive care, a new record of positive cases has been broken, with 52,010 contaminations recorded in 24 hours.
And again, according to Jean-François Delfraissy, the real number of people infected throughout France would be twice as large.
Himself saying "surprised by the brutality (of the virus) for ten days".