Can we see the end of the tunnel?
"Neither optimist nor pessimist", Olivier Véran said he was "rigorous" in an interview given to Le Télégramme.
And the Minister of Health to rejoice: “For five days, we start a decrease in the epidemic.
There are fewer new cases every day: we had risen to 40,000, today we are around 33,000 cases each day on average.
Enough to talk about deconfinement which, for Olivier Véran, should be territorialized.
"I am open to the idea of a territory-by-territory approach in the lifting of braking measures, as I was in favor of when they were put in place," Olivier Véran explained on a daily basis. When considering removing a certain number of constraints, we must look at the epidemic situation in each territory, the hospital situation and, in general, the level of saturation of hospitals in France. "A" certain number of reductions in the measures "could occur from mid-May, after" the reopening of face-to-face schools "(April 26) and" the reopening of face-to-face colleges and high schools "(May 3). ), said the Minister of Health without further clarification, but confirming the reopening of schools.
Thursday, Emmanuel Macron led two preparatory meetings for the end of the crisis to prepare for deconfinement.
It prepares a loosening of the stresses in progressive stages.
As he had said at the end of March, by announcing the general reconfinement in France, the President of the Republic reiterated his ambition to reopen the terraces and certain cultural places in mid-May.
No lifting of the curfew yet
Asked by the newspaper about a possible lifting of the curfew before the start of the summer vacation, Olivier Véran did not come forward.
"All of the braking measures will have to be reassessed at different times, gradually," he just said.
"I hope that we will have a calm, but vigilant summer, like that of last year," added the Minister of Health.
Faced with variants which are gaining ground - the Brazilian variant which is plunging the country into an unprecedented crisis, the Indian variant which is growing in an outbreak of contaminations, the fight is however far from won. Olivier Véran warns: "With the Covid-19 and its variants, we are never safe from bad news ..." And he adds: "We are still at a very high level of the epidemic and the descent is not yet fast enough and clear-cut. We must continue our efforts. "