The health situation is deteriorating in France and a third strict confinement seems to be on the horizon. Will the country be confined again? The President of the Republic has not yet made his decision.
A little more than a year after the start of the first confinement, will France again find itself at a standstill? The Covid-19 epidemic is thus worsening, the country could face a new strict containment. However, Emmanuel Macron wanted to reassure the French. He assured that “nothing is decided” in an interview with Sunday newspaper. “For the days to come, we will be looking at the effectiveness of the braking measures and we will take the necessary ones if necessary.“, explained the President of the Republic while the government qualified the current health situation of “critical”. The head of state also defended himself in relation to his choice not to have reconfigured at the end of January, against the advice of many scientists.
Regarding the complete closure of schools, he assured that it was not “taboo, but it must remain a last resort and a measure limited to the maximum in time “.
An assumed vaccination strategy
Emmanuel Macron “fully assume” the French strategy to deploy the vaccine by age categories, while the vaccination was opened to over 70 years this Saturday. “If I opened up to all age groups at once, there would be social and territorial inequalities in access to the vaccine. It would be a bad political and health choice.” even if “certain professions more particularly exposed “, did he declare. Teachers, for example, could be vaccinated earlier.
The head of state also promised to catch up with the United Kingdom “in a few weeks” as for the people vaccinated. Indeed, the British were administered nearly 30 million first doses of vaccine, against 7.5 million in France although the gap is smaller in the number of people who received their second injection.
France will soon have “more and more doses”, Emmanuel Macron bets on “mega-centers” to meet the executive’s objectives: ten million French people vaccinated in mid-April, 20 million in mid-May, 30 million in mid-June. “We Europeans will have delivered the equivalent of 300 million doses by mid-July ” and “by the end of 2021, we will reach an annual production capacity of two to three billion doses”, he explained, stressing that “52 European factories will be mobilized “ by this program. According to him, he will keep his commitment to “offer a vaccine to all adults who want it before the end of the summer“.
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