Are new restrictive measures going to be put in place soon? This question is on everyone’s lips. Guest on the set of Daily, sure TMC Wednesday 24 March 2021, Olivier Véran, who would also be “very worried” facing the health crisis, has therefore not escaped. If no decision has yet been announced, the Minister of Health mentioned a panel of possible measures, which could be implemented soon. “We will see in a few days, if there are any downward changes”, he pointed out before adding, with a grain of salt: “If we see that, on the contrary, it continues to worsen, that there is an increase in the number of cases, that we have left for the big wave, then, maybe we will be obliged to take action, maybe they will be national, maybe they will be stronger, that may look, more like confinement. Maybe we’ll call it containment. ” However, the tenant of avenue de Ségur specified that he did not have, for the time being, a precise answer: “If I had the conviction that we were going straight ahead, we would not have taken the trouble to put in place territorialized measures as we have put them in place.”
Olivier Véran however wanted to be reassuring, as for the return to the famous life before. “It is considered that these measures [actuelles] are likely to reverse the trend. If so, (…) we will say to ourselves that this is the last wave, that we are vaccinating, that we are protecting people, that the summer is going to arrive and that we will find the course of our lives “, he hoped before qualifying: “If, on the other hand, it were to get worse, we would have to take measures a little harder or perhaps a little longer. We vaccinate, summer will arrive and we will find the course of our lives. ” According to the member of the government, “There are still a few weeks to go, a few weeks of courage”.
“The risk is that this wave will be worse than the first”
Saturday, March 20, 2021, 16 departments have switched to confinement, with a few nuances. Indeed, the government allows residents to leave their homes, but recommend not to receive people outside their home. According to government spokesman Gabriel Attal, who gave a press conference on Wednesday March 24, 2021, at the exit of the Defense Council and the Council of Ministers, Aube, Rhône and Nièvre may be added to the list. However, according to several health professionals, these measures put in place would not be sufficient to limit the spread of Covid-19. According to Jean-Michel Constantin, head of the anesthesia-resuscitation service at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, who spoke at the microphone of BFMTV, this wave “is very much worse (that the second wave, editor’s note) and the risk is that it is worse than the first “.
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