French President Emmanuel Macron was originally scheduled to ease foot traffic bans and restrictions on businesses in mid-December. But now the epidemic trend in France is not going as Macron had hoped, with more than 10,000 people being diagnosed daily, and has been for several days. The French government’s plans to open more events before Christmas may be scuttled… Macron has been criticized by his former minister.
The number of people infected with the French coronavirus has not been dropping. President Macron had promised to open up more commercial space for deregulation starting Dec. 15 if the number of infections fell below 5,000 per day. However, the number of people infected in France is still over 10,000 per day. This situation has been going on for several days.
French health authorities fear that Christmas shopping and reunions will lead to more infections once deregulation begins. At the current level of restrictions (relaxed and flexible), the number of daily infections in France is far less than 5,000, said Solomon, the director general of the French Health Department, last night. He said that hospitals in France continue to be hit hard now. He also warned of the possibility of further bounces in the epidemic.
However, former French Socialist Minister Ms. Segrand Royale said today on Radio France Sud that there is no reason why the government should not ease the bans and restrictions on December 15. The left-wing politician has often come out with a few criticisms of the Ma government’s policies. Her argument is that there are no more coronary pneumonia patients on the hospital front than before. So there is no reason to let the threat of an epidemic affect the economic activity of the French people anymore. Royall disagrees with the government’s delineation of less than 5,000 infections per day. She argues that “the right standard is to keep hospitals in a state of saturation, to be able to continue to treat” and that it is therefore necessary to “monitor hospitalizations”.
The Pfizer vaccine was launched today in the United Kingdom, and France and the European Union are expected to approve the start of the vaccination process before the end of the year. The vaccine, developed at the Pasteur Institute in France, may be available in a few weeks. According to an immunization expert recently invited by French Prime Minister Jean-Claude Cardex, three or four vaccines will likely be available, but he also warned that they will only be out for two or three months and that scientists will not have enough time to evaluate the regression. Macron said that vaccination against the coronavirus is voluntary.
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