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By: Aurélien Devernoix

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This is how La Croix titles its editorial: "to stand " in the face of the temptation of sunny days, which, explains the daily, " increases the frustration of staying locked up at home ". And more and more French people how to succumb to this temptation, this is what Le Parisien reports in a report that takes us from Paris to Marseille via Lyon. More and more French people "are starting to take liberties with government measures ", " but it's too tempting and we're starting to suffocate " defends a Lyon couple outside with their two children.

In Marseille, the police prefect notes an increase in verbalizations in recent days and is worried: if the region is for the moment little affected, " the crisis will come: it is not the game of cat and mouse is the game of death and life , this business. "

But " holding on " is even less easy because " the French are starting to hear a lot about deconfinement ", bounces La Croix , " which gives them ants in their legs ". " Except that the moment has not yet come ".

In an article published this weekend by Le Monde , the boss of the Ile de France Health Agency also said " paralyzed by a confinement that would relax ". " At the slightest wave more, we will be in danger, " says Aurélien Rousseau, while hospitals in the Paris region are already beyond their capacity.

And it's not just the infrastructure that is reaching its limits, the caregivers too

For them too, especially for them, would we be tempted to say, obviously with the sick, "to hold on " is the fateful word.

Many newspapers have been giving them the floor for weeks, but Liberation devotes its front page to them today: " I think covid, I eat covid, I sleep covid, " summarizes Nawal, an intensive care intern at Besançon hospital. A dozen of these caregivers, doctors, nurses, psychiatrist, testify to their intertwined feelings, " anger, fear, revolt " but also " joy " to see patients recover, " solidarity " in the teams, between hospitals.

A lot of anxiety especially, to infect their loved ones, to have to make terrible choices, like " to sort, to take the respirator of someone already intubated to give it to a younger patient who has just arrived ", nightmare Stéphane, doctor at the Avicenne hospital in Bobigny. Stéphane which we learn in the last paragraph that he is now also affected. " Prevented from working ", he explains, because it is the rule, " at least 7 days off ".

" But, " he continues, " in the current context, I only think of one thing : to return quickly and resume my duties. Only two or three days left. "

The present is terrible and the future is uncertain

Because if the word " déconfinement " is in the mouth of all French people, as La Croix pointed out, its implementation promises to be complicated. First, the epidemic is far from being contained, but above all, when the curve is going to drop and the exits are going to be authorized, the challenge will be to avoid a new outbreak of cases. Le Monde is devoting a dossier to the issue of digital tracing to track future patients and those with whom they have been in contact, in order to limit contagion. Applications are being developed in Europe, in line with what has been done in South Korea or Singapore.

The principle is quite simple: by exploiting the data collected by the application, the authorities can trace the thread of your meetings and your contacts, with the key, a preventive quarantine.

But that raises the question of the protection of privacy, even of medical confidentiality. Le Monde gives the floor to the president of the National Commission for Information Technology and Liberties, Marie-Laure Denis, who explains that consent must be respected. If such an application is developed by the government, it will require the agreement of each person for it to be installed on the phones. Marie Laure Denis pleads for an absolutely temporary device and warns " we must beware of believing that an application will solve everything ".

Note that the question of consent is a real challenge for the authorities: Singapore has already deployed its own application, but only 1 in 6 inhabitants downloaded it ... but it would be necessary that at least 80% of the population use it for it to be effective.

This news, which also made the headlines this morning, is the hospitalization of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson

He was hospitalized last night due to persistent symptoms of Covid-19 from which he has been suffering for ten days. And if officially, the British government wants to be reassuring, explaining that Boris Johnson could continue to hold office, Le Mirror , one of the main tabloids in the country, gives a slightly different version. The newspaper has collected testimony from assistants to the head of government who say that Boris Johnson looked ill before his transfer to the hospital. " The illness hit him hard, " says one of them. The British Minister of Health also admitted yesterday that Boris Johnson was not at the end of the healing process. A situation that is necessarily politically complicated as the country faces a progression of the epidemic.

The only clearing in the British mist, the speech of Elizabeth II last night. It is only the 4th time since the beginning of her reign that the Queen has addressed the country in this way and the newspapers are unanimous: she has reassured. Keep calm and carry on, sums up the Sun, " keep calm and hold on ", " better times are coming ", retains Le Mirror ... but the sentence crossing La Manche is as follows " We will see each other again ", European newspapers. It's been a little B series from the 80s, but the hope is there, and the experience also of a Queen who lived through the Blitz, these 9 months of intensive bombing of England by Nazi aviation during the second world War...

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