Educational objective.
The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, will hold a press conference this Thursday at 2 p.m.
According to those around him, the purpose of this new speech is to take stock and explain to the French the evolution of the epidemic in France.
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The minister should in particular focus on the variants of Covid-19, in particular those known as “British” and “South African”, which are progressing everywhere in the territory and which would be more contagious than the previous one.
The Minister of Health should also detail the progress of the vaccination campaign in France, long criticized for its slowness.
The threat of a third confinement
Olivier Véran, on the other hand, should not make any new announcements concerning the health restrictions imposed to try to contain the virus as well as possible.
He should therefore not return to the specter of a third confinement, which the executive does not exclude and which is in everyone's mind.
On Wednesday, government spokesman Gabriel Attal has already warned that several
"scenarios"
were being studied, stressing that the current curfew established at 6 pm was
"relatively effective"
.
Among the different options, the government does not rule out
"very tight confinement".
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