Two days after the entry into force of confinement, the time is not for any lightening of the measures.
Despite in particular the many calls from traders to reopen the shops, the Prime Minister assured Sunday that the government "would not go back on the measures announced" Wednesday by Emmanuel Macron.
"It's much too early," said the head of government on the 8 pm TF1 set, which announced the ban on the sale of non-essential products in supermarkets from Tuesday.
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Jean Castex also urged "everyone, beyond traders, (to be) extremely vigilant" and to respect this confinement.
"It is about the survival of the economy, it is about our collective health", he argued.
A point "in 15 days"
"I understand the weariness of our fellow citizens, I understand the difficulties of each other", he assured, recalling that a point would be made "in 15 days and then, above all, at the end of the 1st December set as the end of this confinement ”.
But for the Prime Minister, the absolute priority for the moment is "to fight against an epidemic which in France as in Europe has taken on dramatic proportions".
“Even today (Sunday), 231 people died in the hospital.
That makes 37,000 of our fellow citizens who have died since the epidemic.
Every 30 seconds, a person with Covid, and not always elderly people, is hospitalized, ”said Jean Castex.
According to him, the resuscitation services "will be saturated within 15 days if we do not act very energetically".
Even if the current confinement were to be as effective as the first, the Institut Pasteur forecasts around 6,000 patients in intensive care in mid-November against a little less than 3,600 currently.