Will "very tight containment" be put in place?
Will the schools remain open?
What about the February holidays?
On the contrary, will the 6 p.m. curfew be perpetuated?
Olivier Véran, the Minister of Health, should not lift the veil on any of these unknowns to which the French are suspended this Thursday, at 2 p.m., during a press conference to take stock of the Covid-19 epidemic .
What is certain, however, is that the government is speeding up its schedule (this speech was initially scheduled for later today) and that, for lack of announcements, this conference aims to educate on the current situation. .
To prepare public opinion for a re-containment?
Olivier Véran's weekly press conference (the only government official) will take place at 2 p.m. this afternoon.
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Olivier Véran canceled a trip scheduled for Thursday morning for a meeting with Emmanuel Macron.
The head of state around which a new Health Defense Council should be held "this weekend, or Monday", according to our information.
By then, the president will have received the results of two studies, one on the prevalence of the English variant in the positive cases identified in recent days, the other on the effects of the 6 p.m. curfew in effect for a long time. ten days throughout the territory.
But even before these results made public, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday that the anticipated curfew “does not sufficiently slow down” the spread of the virus, indicating that “different scenarios” were now on the table.
These range from "maintaining the current framework" which, by its own admission, "seems unlikely", "to a very tight confinement".
