In early February, the French wondered if they would be able to go on vacation and worried about the possibility of a third lockdown. Four weeks later the same concerns continue. Especially since Thursday February 25 the Minister of Health Olivier Véran (who had been deprived of Christmas Eve) will not be alone to speak at 6 p.m. during what has become the traditional press conference since the health crisis of Covid-19. Prime Minister Jean Castex will also participate.
France has recorded 277 additional deaths in hospital in 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 85,321 since the start of the epidemic. The health situation has deteriorated in around ten French departments and the incidence rate is on the rise again, so what will Jean Castex tell us? Will he unleash a thunderous and desperate, "I have so far!", as he did on the set of the show C to you, when he had come to answer Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine's questions? Unlikely! Will the vaccines escape a third national lockdown?
Local confinements
For the time being, it is the track of local confinement that seems privileged in addition to the curfew at 6 p.m. This local confinement will come into force for the very first time in metropolitan France over the next two weekends (February 27-28 and March 6-7) on the coast of the Alpes-Maritimes as well as in Dunkirk. And businesses of more than 5,000 m2 (excluding food and health) will be closed for the next two weeks. So are other such measures going to be taken elsewhere?
It is the inhabitants of the Alpes-Maritimes, Hauts-de-France, Bouches-du-Rhône and Seine-Saint-Denis who have the most to worry about insofar as they have the lowest incidence rates. higher. (599 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the Alpes Maritimes, 352 in Hauts-de-France, 335 in Bouches-du-Rhône and 317 in Seine-Saint-Denis) Tonight, Jean Castex should unveil the full list of departments whose situation is judged "worrying "We will all be set at 6 pm…
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