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No confinement, no curfew, no closure of schools … At the end of a Health Defense Council, the executive took, during a Council of Ministers on Monday, relatively light measures.
“Is it true that omicron is less dangerous?” Without having the answer to this oratorical question formulated by the Minister of Health on Monday evening, the government is swimming between two waters. On the form, the dramatization is in order while 70,000 positive cases for Covid-19 have been identified on a daily average during the last week. Flanked by Olivier Véran, the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, spoke himself at the end of a Council of Ministers and a Health Defense Council, instead of the simple report that the spokesperson government was to ensure initially. Basically, this quarter turn of the sanitary screw decided during the two meetings chaired by videoconference from Fort Brégançon by Emmanuel Macron remained very meager. The Head of State is betting not to alter the country’s economic activity.
Neither curfew on December 31, nor postponement of the start of the school year, still scheduled for January 3, the head of government claims to “Extend and amplify in a proportionate way” the measures already taken previously. As of January 3 and for a period of three weeks, large gatherings will be limited to 2,000 people indoors and 5,000 outdoors. It will be forbidden to consume food and drink in theaters, cinemas and transport (including for long distances). Standing concerts are prohibited. The mask may be made compulsory outdoors by the …