Covid-19: Defense advice for a potential reconfinement?

Faced with a 2nd wave “ brutal ”Of the Covid-19 epidemic, several defense councils are scheduled this week to discuss possible measures that could be put in place, including a local containment during the weekend with a curfew.

Defense advice and new measures

Several meetings are scheduled during the week for the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron as well as a large part of the ministers to discuss the health situation. A defense council took place this morning with ministers Olivier Véran, Bruno le Maire, Gérald Darmanin, as well as the health authorities ” to diagnose the situation »According to the Elysee. This Tuesday afternoon, Jean Castex received political leaders and social partners in Matignon for a consultation on ” planned hardening “. This Wednesday 28 will take place a new defense council where the new measures taken will be discussed and which will be announced to the French at the end of the week. Finally, there will be a debate on the health situation in the Assembly and the Senate on Thursday, October 29.

Towards a possible reconfinement?

The objective is to reduce mobility and therefore contact, and thus eliminate the possibility of being contaminated. The executive counts ” harden »Measures in the face of the spread of Covid-19. Estimated today at 100,000 daily positive cases, the President of the Scientific Council Jean-François Delfraissy, said to himself ” surprised by the brutality of what has been happening for 10 days “And evokes the hypothesis of a” confinement, less hard than that of March “. Three scenarios are currently being considered by the State to contain the epidemic:

a full re-containment of the country: it would be similar to the one the French experienced in March during the 1st wave of the Covid. This is an unlikely scenario, which would have significant economic consequences: ” If we completely refine as in March, we are heading for a collapse of the French economy, we risk not recovering »Explains Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, President of Medef.

a local re-containment : it would be imposed in areas where the virus circulates the most such as in Paris, Marseille or Lyon.

a adapted local re-containment : the curfew would be brought forward to 7 p.m. and would be accompanied by strict confinement on weekends. This type of confinement would allow ” both work, which would obviously increase in terms of teleworking, which would probably make it possible to maintain a school activity and which would also make it possible to also retain a certain number of economic activities, which could be of shorter duration and which would be followed very specific deconfinement conditions “, Notably progressive with a curfew, according to Jean Claude Delfraissy.

Regarding schools, the Minister of Education said “ [qu’] currently schools, colleges and high schools are scheduled to reopen on November 2 “While the Ministry of Higher Education declared that” universities remain open, there are no planned closures “.