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  • A defense council met this Friday to take measures and "give visibility over the coming weeks", says Emmanuel Macron, at a time when France fears a rebound in the Covid-19 epidemic.

  • The level of circulation of the virus is "worrying" and the government "will be forced to make a number of difficult decisions", "within eight to ten days maximum," Jean-François Delfraissy, the president of the Scientific Council, warned on Wednesday. which guides the public authorities.

  • France has registered 9,843 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, a record since the start of the epidemic and the launch of large-scale tests, the Directorate General of Health announced Thursday evening.

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4:44 p.m .: No drastic measures to come?

This is what a government source told AFP.

According to the agency and several other colleagues, the Prime Minister should be content to launch a new call for "collective accountability" to roll back the Covid-19 epidemic.

"No heavy, no intentional announcement", during the Castex press point.

"The state of mind is not the constraint, the ban. The objective is on the other hand to provoke an electric shock among the French", from where idea to give a solemnity ds remarks to come from the PM.

@the Parisian

- Olivier Beaumont (@olivierbeaumont) September 11, 2020

Hello everyone and welcome to this live!

The head of government Jean Castex must speak from 5 p.m. for new announcements relating to the coronavirus epidemic.

You can follow his speech in full here.

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