“A reconfinement in emergency must be anticipated,” warns Jean Castex, when Olivier Véran also evokes the “new constraints” if the epidemic went on.
The déconfinement partial and progressive barely begun, and the government is already floating the threat… of a reconfinement. “We are not finished with the virus ( … ), It is inevitable to pay attention. If we don’t meet collectively the conditions of distancing and physical gestures barrier, then the virus takes off again. And if he must leave, then we will be forced to put new constraints in order to protect the French”, has accused Tuesday the minister of Health, Olivier Véran.
Edouard Philippe had also cautioned on 7 may, during the presentation of the plan of déconfinement of the government : “We can’t be clever with the virus.” A new step will be made on 2 June, in order “to move on to a new phase” in the déconfinement or, in the case of “bad results”, “draw the consequences”. “The déconfinement progressive should not be the mark of a decrease in our vigilance,” insisted the head of government, illustrating the progress of the country “on a ridge line”.
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Jean Castex has also mentioned Monday this threat in a report on the déconfinement, made public : “The possibility of a reversibility of the measures must always be able to be offered, and the possibility of a reconfinement in the emergency must stay in people’s minds and to be anticipated by the public authorities”. “In the absence, in the short term, of a vaccine or solution treatment of the French population remains vulnerable to a reversal of the epidemic”, points out in a document of 68 pages Jean Castex, commissioned by the Prime minister to coordinate the strategy of the déconfinement.
The top official and mayor of Prades (Pyrénées-Orientales) calls to preserve the “reversibility of the measures” in the event of a resurgence of the epidemic of coronavirus. He insists on the “very high level of vigilance” that should be observed in this first stage of the déconfinement.
The doubling of the positive cases, the main criteria
Jean Castex has given clarification on the criteria that could be taken into account for the reconfinement. According to him, a reconfinement could intervene in France if the number of positive cases per day were to “double compared to what it is today.”
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“The Germans call this the stroke of the brake. It is essential to consider, it would be unreasonable not to consider it”, insisted Jean Castex. “We are facing a virus unpredictable. This brake may be territorialized, it is necessary to predict it. It could cover the whole country or only certain territories. It is necessary to have a possibility of reacting as fast as possible”, he added.
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“mr. déconfinement” of the government, which does not preclude a reconfinement of emergency before the 2 June, date of the end of the first phase of déconfinement, insisted on the fact that it was not necessary to “wait on the 2 June if some of the elements showed that the epidemic starts again”.
