The patroness of the PS deputies, Valérie Rabault, on Wednesday 23 December asked the government to announce, as of now, its "
strategy for January
" concerning a possible re-containment and invited it to "
limit travel between regions
".
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Depending on the region, it can start again in a more or less strong way, so yes, I think that it would be necessary to limit the movements of people between the regions and to have a real strategy which is announced
" for January, estimated on France Info the Member of Parliament for Tarn-et-Garonne.
"
The government should say what will happen for the month of January, it should announce it a little more precisely,
" she added.
The mayor (PS) of Nancy, Mathieu Klein, on Tuesday wished for a quick decision from the government on a possible reconfinement while his counterpart from Reims, Arnaud Robinet (LR), considers it necessary to "
reconfine either on a territorial basis or at the national level
" after Christmas.
"
We know that the epidemic curves follow an exponential which is a well-known curve in mathematics and which nevertheless allows to have a certain number of anticipation, so I think that the government would have an interest in giving the rules of the game for the month January,
”argued Rabault.
“
If there are regions that are starting to have a significant peak in contamination, we should probably think
about limiting travel between regions,” she insisted.
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The problem is that the government wants to legislate, always in a hurry to define a framework that would be sustainable
", reacted the deputy PS to the government about-face on the controversial bill establishing a sustainable management regime health emergencies in the event of a future pandemic, ultimately postponed.
"
What I ask the government is to give us the instructions for use so that the vaccines can be carried out quickly and I invite them instead to focus on this
," she added.
France counted 12,000 new cases of infection with the virus on Tuesday, but the positivity rate (which measures the percentage of people positive for Covid-19 out of all those tested) continued to decline, to 4.4% on Tuesday.
386 patients have died, in hospitals and nursing homes, bringing the toll to 61,702 since the start of the epidemic.
