We won't know tonight.
While Boris Johnson announced on Wednesday the lifting of almost all health constraints in the United Kingdom, the French government has decided to go more gradually.
At the end of a new Health Defense Council this Thursday morning, Gabriel Attal announced that Prime Minister Jean Castex will hold a press conference at 7 p.m. to present a "precise timetable for the gradual lifting of the last" restrictions in the face of the Covid-19 epidemic.
During this press conference, in which the Minister of Health Olivier Véran will also participate, he will present the “decisions” taken Thursday morning during a Council of Defense and National Security, indicated the spokesperson at the end. of the Council of Ministers which took place immediately after.
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Gabriel Attal notably mentioned the nightclubs "which are still closed" and which "wait for clear prospects".
He also announced that there would be “prospects for the actors of cultural or sporting life” concerning the gauges still in force (2,000 people maximum indoors, 5,000 people outdoors).
And also for companies, in relation to compulsory teleworking.
“The epidemic is still expanding”
On the vaccination pass, which will soon come into force, “here too the French are waiting for a clarification on the calendar and on the conditions under which it could be withdrawn as soon as the health situation allows it”, specified Mr. Attal.
“While many invited us to close the country as the holidays approached, we held on and we were right,” he said, noting a decrease in intensive care admissions even if “the epidemic is still in progress. expanding”.
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“In France, we experienced two waves at the same time: the Delta wave which began a serious decline, which explains why the number of people hospitalized in intensive care is decreasing.
And the wave of Omicron where there are hopes of a peak that could happen soon,” he pointed out.
“We see that there is still an increase in the incidence rate but at the same time we know that the Omicron variant causes fewer severe cases than the Delta variant,” he added.
The government spokesman also praised "the spirit of responsibility of the French" and the "very wide vaccination coverage" in France which "perfectly played its role as a shield".
