The executive hopes "a return to more normal lives (...) perhaps from mid-April," government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday, specifying that Jean Castex will announce new restrictions on Thursday.
"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, he added, reaffirming that the government intended to maintain a “differentiated response” to a “heterogeneous” situation in the territories.
"This is an increasingly closer horizon, perhaps, we hope, from mid-April, for which we are preparing," explained Mr. Attal after the Council of Ministers, evoking "devices and protocols which could allow the country to be reopened cautiously but surely in the near future".