- Prime Minister Edouard Philippe was questioned this Wednesday by a fact-finding mission to the National Assembly.
- Faced with it, he spoke of the deconfinement of the French. A question of “frighteningly complex”, because there is “no precedent” nor “proven method”.
- "It is now certain that it will not be possible to organize the 2020 bac under normal conditions," added the head of government.
The government has launched studies on the future deconfinement of French men and women. And that looks complex to believe the Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, faced with a fact-finding mission to the National Assembly. The head of government hopes to be able to submit a draft strategy "in the days, the week to come" while we are in the third week of containment to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
To establish a deconfinement plan, the Prime Minister asked "several teams to work on this issue by studying the opportunity, the feasibility of a deconfinement which would be regionalized, which would be subject to a testing policy, depending, know, of age classes ". For the time being, general confinement in France is ordered until April 15.
Questioned by the president of the Assembly Richard Ferrand on the criteria which will lead to the choice of the deconfinement, Edouard Philippe qualified the question of “frighteningly complex”, recalling that there was “no precedent” nor “proven method " "There are elements that we do not have entirely today," he observed, referring to the absence for the moment of "proven treatments" but also the unknowns around "our ability to test".
The decision "will primarily take into account health imperatives".
"We still need to know what tests we are talking about and our ability to produce these tests and in good conditions", he continued, while the government is awaiting the arrival of serological tests, that is to say by blood sample. These last tests, practiced massively, should in particular make it possible to measure "the proportion of our fellow citizens having been in contact with the virus" and therefore the degree of "immunization" of the population, argued the Prime Minister.
"The decisive indicator" will however remain "the number of severe cases", the executive trying to ensure that this volume "does not exceed the number of places in the intensive care unit". "It is therefore probable that we are not moving towards a general and absolute deconfinement at once, everywhere and for everyone", underlined Edouard Philippe, ensuring that the decision "will take into account above all the imperatives of health" .
"We hope, and here again I am careful, to be able to move forward on the subject and present elements of a strategy of deconfinement in the days, the week to come, so as to give a perspective to our fellow citizens", He specifies.
The resumption of classes on May 4, a simple "assumption"
The question of re-entry into schools, colleges and high schools is "linked to the general question of deconfinement", added Edouard Philippe, in response to a question from Bruno Studer (LREM). The date of May 4 advanced by the Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer is only a "hypothesis", he noted. And "it is now certain that it will not be possible to organize under normal conditions the bac 2020," added the head of government, indicating that he would have the opportunity to speak soon on the subject. According to him, Michel Blanquer "is consulting and instructing the solutions".
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According to a source familiar with the matter, the Minister of Education could announce several scenarios depending on the date of resumption of classes, which no one knows yet since it depends on the evolution of the epidemic. He must speak before the end of the week, probably Friday.
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