Will we soon be confined again? After having been forced to stay at home from March 17 to May 11, 2020 (1 month and 25 days), then from October 30, 2020 to December 15, 2020 (i.e. 1 month and 18 days), the French (already under the influence of an advanced curfew at 6 p.m.), will undoubtedly be re-defined in the coming days. This is what our colleagues from the Sunday newspaper in their edition of Sunday January 24, 2021. It was about a “Imminent re-containment”, according to “High-placed sources” within the Executive. The JDD also mentioned a possible speech by President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday January 27 at 8 p.m., with the aim of announcing this confinement supposed to begin at the end of the month for at least three weeks. Rumors to which Gabriel Attal responded on the set of Sunday in politics a few hours after the publication of the weekly. "There is no decision made", assured the government spokesperson.
Jean Castex's little phrase
Monday January 25, 2021, it was Jean Castex's turn to speak. The Prime Minister took advantage of his visit to the ARS Ile-de-France accompanied by the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, to take stock of the epidemiological situation and the vaccination system in the region. During his speech, the 55-year-old politician launched a small sentence which suggests that a third confinement is to come as reported The Parisian : "It's not about letting your guard down" he said before explaining that "Decisions will be made this week."
Epidemiologists call for rapid containment. "Faced with the variant, we have no choice but to re-define", estimated Mylène Ogliastro, vice-president of the French Society of Virology in the newspaper. A point of view shared by Jean-François Delfraissy, President of the Scientific Council, who already explained in the daily Sunday January 24, 2021: "We will probably have to go towards containment."
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