DIRECT – Coronavirus: Tuesday, November 3

Find daily information on the evolution of the Coronavirus Covid-19 epidemic, as well as advice and measures taken by the government.

Gabriel Attal, the government spokesman, announced that a 9 p.m. curfew could be “restored in Paris and perhaps in Ile-de-France”. A measure that could intervene because ” even if the vast majority of French people respect the rules, it is unbearable to see other French people who do not respect the rules and to have the feeling that there is a laissez-faire »Declared the minister, recalling that 100,000 checks were carried out, resulting in 14,000 verbalizations in France since this reconfinement.

The scientific council suggested that several successive waves could occur between this winter and the spring of 2021. Which means that the government could adopt the strategy of “ stop and go », Alternating in particular between deconfinement and reconfinement. Damien Mascret, doctor and journalist, indicated that this strategy would consist of ” to avoid going back above this threshold of 5000. Each time we go above 5000, we will take very strong measures, type first confinement, but very briefly, maybe for two weeks “. As a reminder, the government has set itself the goal of not exceeding 5,000 daily contaminations in order to sufficiently slow the spread of the virus.

The Minister of Health, Olivier Veran, revealed that Christmas “will not be a normal holiday” and that it is “ difficult to imagine big evenings For New Year’s Eve. In addition, he assures that the government is doing everything to ensure that the French meet with their families for the end of the year celebrations: ” You have to be careful, be attentive, but you have to be able to take advantage of your own. We want the French to be able to do their Christmas shopping, to be able to look forward to Christmas and the end of the year “.