Close schools by bringing the holidays forward?
Extend braking measures to other departments?
Or “push the walls” of hospitals while waiting for the impact of vaccinations?
Faced with the scolding over his anti-Covid strategy with more than 5,000 patients in critical care, Emmanuel Macron will speak on Wednesday at 8 p.m., to state his choices.
Recalling the intervention of November 24 in the middle of the second wave, this presidential address heralds large-scale measures, as since the start of the crisis a year ago.
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Another sign of the importance of these announcements, Jean Castex will deliver a statement on Thursday, which will be followed by a debate and a vote in the two chambers of parliament, "on the evolution of the health situation and the measures necessary for answer to ".
"We have difficult weeks ahead of us," insisted Gabriel Attal, leaving the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, specifying that the new measures announced in the evening will take into account "the dynamics of the epidemic" but also their consequences. "On the morale of our compatriots, on the education of our children and on activity in our country".
"But the key factor in our decisions remains the situation of our hospitals," he added.