The Christmas and New Year celebrations should be canceled this year for fear that these holidays will cause a new resurgence of Covid-19, according to Julien Lenglet, hematologist and crisis medical director of the private hospital of Antony in the Paris region, guest of BFMTV on Monday 9 November.
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According to the doctor, there is a risk that Christmas and New Year's Eve “
potentially lead to a giant national cluster, intergenerational at the origin of a potential third wave
” of Covid-19.
The risk would then be of having to “
discuss new confinement
” a few weeks after the holidays.
"
If I had to have a purely scientific and rational opinion, I would rather say cancel Christmas and New Years Eve without hesitation,
" he said.
With a second particularly virulent wave and a very fragile tremor of epidemiological indicators, uncertainties persist on the duration of the confinement and the way in which the end-of-year celebrations will unfold.
Olivier Véran himself refuses to make predictions on the turn that Christmas will take.