Olivier Véran excludes a “preventive” re-containment before All Saints' Day or Christmas

Unsurprisingly, Olivier Véran said this Sunday not to consider at all a “preventive” re-containment in December, in order to maximize the chances for the French to be able to spend Christmas with their family.

This shock proposal was issued this Saturday by two Nobel Prize winners in economics, including the Franco-American Esther Duflo.

“We want the French to be able to spend the end of the year celebrations with their families.

Anticipating a three-week confinement seems like a prediction.

I am not a fan of prediction, but of anticipation.

[…] I do not plan for two months, but from day to day ", replied the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, in the" Grand jury "on RTL and LCI.

"What will happen depends on what we will do in the coming weeks"

Asked also about the All Saints holidays at the end of October, Olivier Véran replied that "what will happen depends on what we are going to do in the coming weeks".

Clearly, additional restrictions are not excluded in some parts of the country if the epidemic remains at levels as worrying as it is now or continues to progress.

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As he has been repeating regularly for weeks, Olivier Véran took the opportunity to indicate that he "did not want to reconfigure the country", in general.

"I do not regret having let the French find a normal life this summer," he also said, while the government and many doctors have pointed to a relaxation in the respect of barrier gestures during the holidays.

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