Jean Castex will unveil the new restrictions aimed at slowing down the epidemic outbreak which continues to progress in Ile-de-France and Hauts-de-France, saturating a little more every day the resuscitation services of the hospitals of these departments.
This press conference was postponed to 19:00 pending the opinion of the European Medicines Agency on the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which is due to be expressed at 6:00 p.m.
The restrictions will first affect the 12 million Ile-de-France residents and the 6 million inhabitants of Hauts-de-France, two regions particularly affected by the marked acceleration in the circulation of the virus in France, with more than 38,000 infections in 24 hours. according to the latest report.
As of Wednesday noon, at the end of a new Health Defense Council, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said that "additional measures", applicable from this weekend, would be taken in these two regions, all by suggesting that the schools would remain open there.