A new defense council dedicated to the health crisis linked to the Covid-19 epidemic will take place on Wednesday morning at the Elysee Palace, according to the Prime Minister's agenda released Tuesday, November 3 in the evening by Matignon.
Prime Minister Jean Castex will participate on Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. in a "
Restricted Council on Covid-19
" at the Elysée Palace, just before the Council of Ministers scheduled for 10:30, the agenda specifies.
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Jean Castex will also have an interview with Emmanuel Macron before this Defense Council, which does not generally give rise to a communication, followed by a Council of Ministers and a report by the government spokesman Gabriel Attal.
This new Defense Council intervenes as the health situation is deteriorating, with now nearly 3,900 Covid-19 patients now hospitalized in intensive care or intensive care.
The Prime Minister went on Tuesday evening with the Minister of Health Olivier Véran to the Center hospitalier Sud Francilien in Corbeil-Essonnes (Essonne), where he spoke with the healthcare staff on the front line in the face of the second wave of Covid-19 .
This Council also intervenes at a time when the establishment of a new confinement arouses discontent in high schools and small businesses.
Faced with a deteriorating situation in Europe, EU heads of state and government have also decided to meet on November 19 for a videoconference summit on the Covid-19 epidemic, three weeks after their last exchange on the subject