Real prospect of improvement or boost to the morale of the French?
In any case, the executive let it be known this Wednesday, through the voice of its spokesperson Gabriel Attal, that it hopes "a return to a more normal life (...) perhaps from mid-April" .
However, he warns: by then, "weeks of heavy weather" will still be necessary.
"The return to a more normal life is in sight, the places which make our social life will reopen, it is a horizon at the end of the tunnel that we must have in sight", thanks to the vaccination, adds Gabriel Attal.
The government intends, however, to maintain a “differentiated response” depending on the territories, specifies the government spokesperson.
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Gabriel Attal evokes "devices and protocols which could allow the country to be reopened cautiously but surely in the near future".
Emmanuel Macron is to hold a meeting this Wednesday afternoon with the head of government Jean Castex and several ministers, about the nature of these devices to be put in place.
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The government wants to give a perspective to French people tired of containment measures, but recognizes that the situation, for the time being, remains "worrying" and that additional measures may be necessary.
"It is not an explosion, it is not an exponential increase, but it is a continuous rise" of the positive cases, indicates Gabriel Attal.
Jean Castex is due to hold a press conference on Thursday during which new restrictive measures must be announced, a week after having identified around twenty departments under increased surveillance.
"We are conducting consultations with local elected officials, with regional players, so that additional measures - if they prove to be necessary - can be taken as soon as possible", underlines Gabriel Attal.
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“We maintain an approach that is graduated, that is targeted, territory by territory.
Each region is not the same, the situation is not the same everywhere, ”insists the government spokesperson.
The latter calls for "to do everything to prevent the situation from spreading oil in the areas most preserved by the epidemic" and to take "all the necessary measures when they are necessary in this situation".
Gabriel Attal further asserts that there is indeed “a horizon with vaccination”.
The goal of nine million people who will have received at least a first injection by the end of March is still relevant, according to the Secretary of State.
