The government has already noted that the curfew advanced to 6 p.m. insufficiently slows down the epidemic in the country.
Over the next two days, the Prime Minister will therefore launch consultations before announcing new restrictions.
All avenues are currently under study, according to executive spokesman Gabriel Attal, including the hypothesis of a “very tight” re-containment, to use his own words.
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On the epidemic level, the virus continues to circulate strongly in the country.
The curve has been maintaining a high plateau for weeks.
This Wednesday evening, Santé Publique France announced 26,916 new Covid-19 contaminations, against 22,086 Tuesday and 26,784 seven days ago.
In hospitals, 1,933 new admissions were recorded in the last 24 hours.
3097 patients in intensive care
Health authorities have identified 351 deaths from the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours.
As of Tuesday, 352 people had lost their lives as a result of the disease.
Santé Publique France has also announced that 27,131 people have been taken care of in French hospitals.
The trend has been on the rise for several days.
The 27,000 patient mark has been crossed since Tuesday.
A week ago, there were 25,650 French people hospitalized across the country.
Among these coronavirus patients, 3,097 suffer from severe forms of the disease which require treatment in intensive care units, against 3,071 on Tuesday and 2,842 just seven days ago.
Over the past 24 hours, 318 new patients have been taken care of in these specialized services.
There remains the vaccination.
On this last point, the health authorities announced this Wednesday that 1,130,753 people have received at least one dose of Pfizer vaccine since the start of the campaign.
More precise statistics are expected in the coming days.
