As the epidemic monitoring indicators turn red, the government is issuing a warning message.
"All our efforts must continue" to "avoid having to decide on a new national confinement", warned Gabriel Attal at the end of the Council of Ministers on Wednesday.
There is "obviously" no "certainty that we will achieve it", but "if we considered that a containment was needed today, we would have decided on a containment", added the government spokesman .
The situation in the fight against Covid-19 "is deteriorating", explained Attal.
It is even "very worrying in ten departments".
This degradation "imposes rapid and strong measures", he said, indicating that Prime Minister Jean Castex would hold a press conference on Thursday.
Véran in Dunkirk
In the grip of an outbreak of the epidemic fueled by the British variant, the Urban Community of Dunkirk is waiting this Wednesday to be fixed on the parade that the government will choose, passed to a “case by case” approach since the previous Nice.
The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, is expected in the afternoon to set up with local elected officials new restrictions, whether voluntary, as desired by the mayors of the Urban Community, or imposed, as on the coast. des Alpes-Maritimes, subject to confinement for the next two weekends.