The epidemic indicators are red.
New admissions to hospitals and intensive care units have been increasing for several days.
Some elected officials and experts plead for a rapid reconfinement, to save the end of January.
At just over 48 hours before New Year's Eve, the executive held a defense council this Tuesday morning to decide on the measures to be taken in the face of the probable epidemic rebound.
The Minister of Health Olivier Véran will speak this evening, at 8 p.m., on the set of the television news of France 2.
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