"Christmas together".
It's not just the title of a song.
This is also the government's goal, as the fifth wave of Covid-19 continues to climb.
To achieve this, the authorities are counting on "collective responsibility, with barrier gestures", but also on the reminder of the vaccination, which "acts as a barrier against contamination", according to Gabriel Attal.
For the government spokesperson, France has two strengths: "an extremely wide vaccination coverage" and "a recall campaign which began in early September for the elderly or frail and which is being deployed in spectacular fashion today", he commented this Friday, during a trip to Deux-Sèvres.
“Our wish is to continue moving in this direction with one goal: to be able to spend Christmas together.
This is our course, ”explained Gabriel Attal.
Compulsory vaccination not considered for the moment
He said the government hoped not to have to "come back to measures that we unfortunately had to know at the start of this epidemic".
For him, "vaccination is what gives us this chance to be able to cross (the fifth wave) in the most normal conditions possible".
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On the subject, Gabriel Attal also explained that compulsory vaccination was not considered in France, unlike in other countries.
"There are no plans to change strategy" on the subject, he said, welcoming instead the effectiveness of "the maximum incentive to vaccination (...) with the health pass", which has allowed coverage "wider than most of our neighbors".