New measures are expected this Thursday, March 18, concerning two regions: Ile-de-France and Hauts-de-France. They will be announced by Prime Minister Jean Castex and Minister of Health, Olivier Véran. An opinion must also be delivered by the European Medicines Agency on the AstraZeneca vaccine. What restrictions are envisaged?
Partial, total or no containment?
These new restrictive measures will apply from the end of the week. Containment could be announced, but the details are not yet known. The French are waiting for the announcements, to know how they will have to adapt to the circulation of the coronavirus. The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, has yet to decide. For the time being, no one knows if it will be total or partial containment on weekends for Ile-de-France and Hauts-de-France, as is the case in Nice, Dunkirk, in the department. of Pas-de-Calais and on the coast of the Alpes-Maritimes. It could also be that confinement is not the solution, especially for Paris and its departments. As France Bleu confides, the Head of State would have indicated: ” We have people who come home very late every evening, we cannot re-define them from Friday evening to Sunday evening, it’s a life that is not possible “.
Disparate measures
So what does the government have in store for these 18 million people? In all cases, the measures will be adopted according to the territories concerned. Emmanuel Macron had declared, during a trip to a hospital in Poissy on March 17, that the measures announced would be ” proportionate ” and ” territorialized “. According to him, a weekend confinement in the Paris region is ” complicated “To put in place, because” life is a little different “. Therefore, ” a braking measure better suited to life in the Ile-de-France region Could be adopted. It would seem that certain avenues are favored, such as teleworking which should be reinforced. Schools should remain open.
