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Vaccines, curfew ... time for the government to clarify

2021-01-06T20:07:43.539Z


Jean Castex is organizing a new press conference this Thursday to specify his strategy to accelerate his vaccination campaign and its measures.


The custom wants it so.

After six months in Matignon, Emmanuel Macron presented Jean Castex with the Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit on Wednesday.

The opportunity to distill a few messages.

" Stay as you are.

The only curves that should interest you are those of the virus and growth, ”recommended the president to his head of government during this ceremony organized in a small committee at the Elysee.

“When it's easy, we don't think of you, obviously.

We think of you when the task is hard ”, also declared Emmanuel Macron.

A compliment, but which throws a harsh light on the Prime Minister's mission.

Telescoping agendas, Jean Castex will hold once again this Thursday, at 6 p.m., a very delicate press conference to answer this double question: how the executive intends to accelerate on the vaccine front and slow down circulation virus?

This was also the subject of a discussion, Monday evening, during a meeting of the executives of the majority around Castex: "Do we assume the concomitance between difficult decisions and vaccines in the same week?

»Reports a participant, while estimating that« if things are decided, they must be announced ».

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If it is still too early to measure the effect of the end of the year celebrations and the establishment of the curfew at 6 p.m. in part of the country, the figures remain on "a high plateau", insists the executive.

"Without forgetting all the questions surrounding the virus, whether it is variant or not," adds Matignon.

As a result, Castex risks disappointing many players, who despair of knowing when cultural venues, bars and restaurants, and ski resorts can finally reopen.

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On Wednesday, the government spokesman, Gabriel Attal, promised them "visibility", referring to culture, "a reopening schedule that could be gradual" and would start "with some actors and then others".

As for the card of curfews at 6 pm, it "can evolve in one direction or the other," he said.

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There remains the thorny question of the vaccine.

"There was an obligation to speed things up and to simplify, it will be done", assures a relative of the president.

But critics continued to rain on Wednesday.

In addition to the controversy over the mission entrusted to the private consulting firm McKinsey and Company to support the government, the presidents of the regions have further increased the pressure by asking the state for authorization to purchase vaccines.

"We don't have enough doses"

Enough to again emphasize the problem of supply.

The proof: to an elected official who asked him recently why the government did not want to vaccinate on a large scale, the chief of staff of the Prime Minister, Nicolas Revel, did not go four ways: "We do not have enough doses.

If we move immediately, we will quickly go towards shortage.

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While the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, on RTL, then Emmanuel Macron in front of local elected officials in Tours, unveiled their tracks on Tuesday to accelerate, details are expected this Thursday.

A minister summarizes: “We are accelerating, but the general strategy remains the same.

The French will still have to arm themselves with patience.

We still have a few more months, at least.

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Source: leparis

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