Faced with the Covid-19 epidemic which is not slowing down and the tension in hospitals, the government must announce new restrictive measures.
"We are seeing strong tensions on the hospital system, an increase in the number of cases but not an explosion, without territorial homogeneity (...) But a national confinement or the weekend is for us only a last resort" , explained a government source, shortly before the press conference.
An arbitration meeting took place again Thursday morning in Matignon on these issues.
According to the Prime Minister's entourage, Jean Castex will also return to the levers to accelerate the deployment of the AstraZeneca vaccine, while doses remain in stock.
The executive's objective is to avoid local re-containment as much as possible, at a time when the WHO records an increase in cases in Europe after six weeks of decline.
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