Faced with a still worrying circulation of Covid-19, the government is preparing to update its travel restriction system.
And this even before being able to measure the effects of new measures, expected within two weeks.
Prime Minister Jean Castex is scheduled to speak Thursday afternoon at 5 p.m.
Unsurprisingly, it will formalize the passage on maximum alert of a "certain number of departments", the spokesman Gabriel Attal warned Wednesday at the exit of the Council of Ministers.
This therefore means an extension of the curfew from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. in other metropolises.
22 departments threatened
But then what are the targeted areas?
At its highest in some cities affected by the curfew, such as Saint-Etienne (716), Lille (675), Lyon (582), Grenoble (460), the incidence rate is also on the rise in Clermont-Ferrand (322), Tours (237) or Nantes (194).
In the Eurometropolis of Strasbourg, where it is now close to the maximum alert threshold, the incidence rate "doubles every week", notes the Regional Health Agency of Grand Est.
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In total, the incidence rate exceeds the maximum alert threshold (250) in 22 departments as of October 16, against ten a week earlier - and only one two weeks before, according to data available on Public Health France.
It remains to be seen how many of these departments have also exceeded the other two thresholds retained (100 cases out of 100,000 in people over 65, and 30% of Covid-19 patients in intensive care units).
Restrictions at least until April 1, 2021
For the first time since May, the total number of Covid-19 patients currently in intensive care exceeded the 2,000 mark on Monday evening. This is still far from the peak of the epidemic, when more than 7,000 Covid-19 patients were present. in sheave.
But more than 150 serious cases enter these peak services every day and they were 278 more on Tuesday.
Faced with this upsurge, the executive wants to extend the state of health emergency until February 16, 2021 inclusive, according to a bill presented Wednesday in the Council of Ministers.
The executive also intends to be able to apply measures of movement restrictions, gatherings or the opening of establishments at least until April 1, 2021, on all or part of the territory and depending on the epidemic situation, according to the same text.
