Macron tries to curb the economic consequences of the coronavirus crisis

After the field trips, the official speech. On the front line since the acceleration of the coronavirus crisis, Emmanuel Macron will speak to the French on Thursday evening at 8 p.m. from the Élysée to report on his action but above all to call on them to respect the gestures essential to avoid the spread of the epidemic. "We are waging an extremely tactical battle on a daily basis to avoid an Italian-style situation ," said a relative of the President of the Republic. Tuesday, Emmanuel Macron estimated that a quarantine as drastic as that applied in Italy was "not necessary" but that it was not excluded.

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For now, there is no question of triggering stage 3 of the epidemic. "Not at this stage," says one at the Élysée where we are working to play down this stage which now seems inevitable. "It is an act more administrative than political," says one. From the start, the Élysée highlights scientific authorities

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