The health situation is deteriorating in France. There are currently 19 departments involved in “major curbing measures”. But these restrictions could change, as a new Health Defense Council is held this Wednesday, and that President Emmanuel Macron is to address the people tonight at 8 p.m.
Covid: lockdown extended to France, schools to close, reopenings, Macron's latest statements
Faced with the third Covid-19 epidemic wave, Emmanuel Macron addressed the French this Wednesday March 31, 2021. The French President assessed the worrying evolution of the country's health situation. Therefore, the Head of State has called lockdown extended to the entire mainland country - and no longer to 19 departments only -, along with the closure of schools for three weeks, "systematic" working from home, as well as a detailed vaccination calendar. [Read more]
What will the President and his government decide, then? So far, three scenarios are considered, and closing schools seems to be the likeliest option.
Covid: Castex confirms nursery and elementary schools reopen on April 26
After closing for three weeks to curb the Covid-19 epidemic in the country, nursery and elementary schools will reopen on Monday April 26, 2021. This is what Prime Minister Jean Castex confirmed this April 22 during a press brief. [Read more]
As for the Conseil national de l’Ordre des Médecins – or French Medical Association – they have been claiming for “real lockdown everywhere it is needed” in an open letter sent this Monday to Emmanuel Macron, and issued by Libération. “While we are waiting to be massively vaccinated, anywhere the situation is serious, we must go into lockdown”, Conseil de l’Ordre (Cnom) chairman Patrick Bouet explains.
“Each and everyone has to give priority to health and take this new order into account: the virus is winning”, he adds, thinking that “for many of those who are on the frontlines against Covid-19, it seems we have lost control over the epidemic”.
