By Sudouest.fr with AFP
At the end of the Health Defense Council and the Council of Ministers on Wednesday January 5, the government spokesperson took stock of the epidemic situation, the measures in place but also on the recent controversy of the remarks made by Emmanuel Macron
A new Health Defense Council, as a preamble to the Council of Ministers, to “reassess the situation” after the announcements of December 27, was held this Wednesday, January 5.
Gabriel Attal, the government spokesperson recalled at the end of these two councils, that Tuesday, January 4, “300,000 positive cases were reached during the day” and referred to “stratospheric levels” of contamination in several regions . He also said that this “supersonic rise in contamination will continue”.
8 million self-tests
Despite this not very optimistic record, no new restriction announcements were made. The government intends to bet on the tests by explaining that eight million self-tests “will be distributed next week in pharmacies, including Chinese brands”.
“Who’s fucking who’s life?” “
Gabriel Attal returned to several controversial subjects. Starting with the comments made by Emmanuel Macron in “Le Parisien”, who said he was determined to “piss off” the unvaccinated “until the end”. Asked from the first question on this subject, the spokesperson accepts the words of the president. “We are going to say it frankly, who is screwing the life of whom? “. And to continue: “These are those who oppose the vaccine. “” The words of the President of the Republic seem to me to fall far short of the anger of a large part of the French, “he added.
He also returned to the coup de theater at the National Assembly, after the suspension of the examination of the text on the bill establishing the vaccine pass. The government spokesperson said he was sorry for the delay in the debates. And accuses the opposition. “We had planned an entry of the pass on January 15, we had accelerated the schedule for that. There is a choice of obstruction to escape their responsibility, in any case, the Republicans, the National Rally and La France insoumise. “
Use of 49.3?
Gabriel Attal has also ruled out recourse to article 49.3 to pass the bill on the vaccine pass, currently being discussed in the Assembly. “The question does not arise”, he said, because there is “a majority which is ready to vote it”. “You have in front of oppositions who flee their responsibilities” by “preventing the debate from being held, with small political blows to suspend the meeting, etc.” “, He denounced. In a tweet, the LFI presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon mentioned rumors “behind the scenes” on “the possible use of a 49.3” on this text.
Regarding schools, Gabriel Attal recalled that the protocol at the start of the school year was unchanged at level 3. But he recognized the difficulty for children in contact cases to be tested, while adding that “the Ministry of National Education must communicate soon ”, on this subject.
The spokesperson wanted to be optimistic: “We are not out of the woods, but we have the means to hold on and face this new wave together,” he said.