As the end of the year holidays approach, the appearance of the fifth wave worries the French.
While the Minister of Health Olivier Véran will announce Thursday at midday the measures of the executive to fight against the epidemic recovery, an Odoxa-Backbone Consulting poll for
Le Figaro
reveals the state of opinion on this issue.
Firmly opposed to the reinstatement of a curfew (72%) and to a general reconfinement (80%) - two avenues already "
excluded
" by the government -, the respondents say, however, that they are in favor of new decisions be taken quickly to stem the circulation of Covid-19 in the territory.
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Among the most popular tools, the extension of teleworking occupies the first place (84%).
This was followed by the re-establishment of the wearing of a mask in public places (73%), the strengthening of checks on the health pass (68%), and the reduction of gauges in places welcoming large audiences (65%).
Finally, the extension of the vaccination booster to all adults, regardless of their age, is supported by nearly three in four French people (72%), while one in two (53%) respondents say they are inclined to seek a new injection as quickly as possible.
The suspension of the sanitary pass for the recalcitrant is however more divisive (50% / 49%).
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Although the avenues envisaged by the executive overlap point for point with the wishes expressed by the French in this study, the latter do not mainly give Emmanuel Macron credit for good management of the health crisis.
More than half of them (54%) indeed judge its results negatively since the onset of the pandemic in March 2020. To such an extent that nearly three out of four respondents (74%) fear that the violent demonstrations currently observed in Europe (Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria) in the West Indies (Guadeloupe, Martinique) are not imported into France and are spreading to the whole of the metropolis.
