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Defense advice: what Emmanuel Macron will have to decide

2021-04-20T20:53:52.136Z


This Wednesday, the Head of State is chairing a summit meeting to prepare for the start of the school year. And move forward on the issue of isolation ob


D-5 before the return of the children to schools.

For the executive, there is no question of stumbling: Emmanuel Macron has made this comeback the kickoff of the gradual relaxation of constraints ... It is in the Defense Council, this Wednesday, that the last modalities must be adopted.

All in a still fragile health context.

"There are fewer new cases on a daily basis, we had risen to 40,000, we are now around 33,000 cases each day," said Minister of Health Olivier Véran, in an interview with Le Télégramme.

“We will have to characterize this epidemic inflection: has the peak been exceeded or are we on a plateau?

», Asks an adviser to the executive.

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The discussion will then begin on the most sensitive points: should we review the health protocols that govern class closures in the event of an infected child?

Where is the vaccination of teachers?

How to deploy the self-tests?

The government has placed a mega order for self-administered tests, but their deployment remains unclear.

Who should they reserve them for: only for teaching staff or also for students over 15?

Should they be used at the entrance to establishments or should they be used at home?

So many questions that the Head of State will have to decide in a small committee.

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"We rushed to make this announcement"

On the menu of discussions, also, the mandatory ten-day quarantine for passengers coming from countries overwhelmed by the most dangerous variants. A decree is currently being appraised by the Scientific Council. At the end of the week, it will give rise to prefectural decrees allowing the police to control travelers at their homes. “We rushed to make this announcement, growls a government adviser. As a result, it was messy: we suspended direct flights from Brazil, but we can arrive without problem via Switzerland. As for compulsory isolation, it does not come into effect until Saturday. "

The list of territories concerned could change.

In addition to Brazil, Argentina, South Africa and, on the French side, Guyana, the authorities are wondering about the case of India, hit by 273,000 new cases per day and a local variant formidable.

The situation in the Netherlands is also the subject of internal debates: its national restrictions are considered too lax, while the country is the gateway to significant flows into Europe.

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A vaccination campaign in the "starting blocks"

Finally, the vaccination campaign will be closely watched. It will take a new step forward with the green light granted this Tuesday by the European Medicines Agency to the Jansen serum from Johnson & Johnson. Pending the opinion of the French health authorities, the government does not hide its impatience. “We are in the starting blocks, deliveries have already started to be made, slips a weighty advisor. Even if this vaccine may appear to be redundant with AstraZeneca, of which it shares the same technology, it has the advantage of only relying on a single injection. Clearly, it is practical for vaccinating audiences that are more difficult to reach ”. The first injections could start as early as Monday.

There remains the case of AstraZeneca, which still arouses so many reservations from the French. This Tuesday evening, as a preamble to a meeting on vaccines at the Elysee Palace, the Head of State called on ministers and experts to “think collectively” on “communication” and on ways to restore the image of this product which is the subject of a "difficulty in convincing our fellow citizens". The health crisis also involves the battle of public opinion.

Source: leparis

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