France has entered "a form of third wave" of the coronavirus epidemic, "characterized by numerous variants," said Jean Castex on Tuesday, who relies more than ever on vaccination to try to stem it.
"The epidemic is playing overtime," said the Prime Minister to the National Assembly, one year to the day after Emmanuel Macron ordered the first confinement.
After observing a few seconds of silence for the 90,000 or so dead from the Covid, at the invitation of the president of the group of PS deputies Valérie Rabault, Jean Castex called for "to respect more than ever the elementary gestures which for a year constitute a solidarity guarantee in the face of pandemic progression ”.
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The epidemic situation is indeed very tense in several departments, starting with those of Ile-de-France where the intensive care services at the hospital have reached saturation thresholds.
"What are you planning to do to prevent us from taking the wall?"
", Asked Ms. Rabault in particular to the head of government.
“I would obviously put vaccination at the forefront of this fight strategy when I speak,” replied the Prime Minister, while the AstraZeneca vaccine is currently suspended in France and among its European neighbors.
"We know that it is mass vaccination (...) which will allow us to get out of it," insisted the head of government.