Deconfinement will soon be effective. After weeks of doubts, the French had the answers to the questions they were asking themselves, Thursday, April 29, 2021. Emmanuel Macron has indeed announced in The Parisian and to the regional press that the government had developed a four-stage deconfinement schedule, from Monday May 3 to Wednesday June 30. Thanks to school closures, school-related cases have never been so low since August 2020, as pointed out Public Health France in a report dated April 29, 2021. “508 cases having a link with the school environment were reported in week 16, or again a significant decrease (-39% compared to week 15 and -97% compared to week 13) in connection with the setting up of distance education on April 6 then school holidays “, can we read on the site.
As the journalist from the Parisian Nicolas Berrod, Public Health France also points out that “the resumption of schooling (this week) could lead to an increase in this indicator over the coming weekss “. Despite the self-tests and the closure of all classes in which a positive case is detected, the reopening of establishments could therefore have a strong impact on the circulation of the virus.
Has the health crisis ended at the end of 2021?
The timetable announced by Emmanuel Macron is provisional, which means that it could not be applied in the event of an uncontrolled increase. However, the President of the Republic has decided to avoid confining as much as possible in the future: “I have to look at the consequence of closing a school, when a child will not have a meal a day; or even the consequence when a business is asked to close for several weeks. I know their distress today. We have to take all of this into account“, he said in this interview with the Parisian Thursday April 29, 2021.
Despite all the precautions taken by the government, the health crisis may not be over at the end of 2021. Asked by the newspaper and the regional daily press, Emmanuel Macron was also particularly pessimistic on this subject: “I don’t know. If there aren’t some new, uncontrolled variants, yes. Maybe we’ll have to live with the virus for years and to have us vaccinated again every year “.
Cautiously (but in bold), Public Health France advance this evening that “the resumption of schooling [cette semaine] could cause this indicator to rise in the coming weeks “.https://t.co/EWJNGDqYnn pic.twitter.com/64k04Pitof
– Nicolas Berrod (@nicolasberrod) April 29, 2021
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