Olivier Véran has been the Minister of Health since February 2020. -

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The Minister of Health Olivier Véran ruled out a national “preventive” re-containment before Christmas and indicated that the implementation of any travel restrictions during the All Saints holidays depended on “what we will do in the coming weeks”.

The minister was interviewed in Le Grand Jury RTL-

Le Figaro

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"If the circulation of the virus increases and it is not slowed down, if we do not put all the necessary means to slow down its circulation, well this endangers our health system and the French themselves", a- he added.

Regarding the proposal of the two Nobel laureates in economics, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, to establish a national confinement on the first twenty days of December to allow the French to find their families during the holidays, Olivier Véran believes that this scenario is " of the order of prediction ”.

Decisions on numbers

"I do not plan to in two months to make plans on the comet", declared the minister.

"I project myself day by day with my batteries of figures (...), feedback from the field, in order to offer the French the safest path to avoid confinement and that they can spend family celebrations in good conditions .

It will not go through an early confinement of three weeks ”.

“We do not want to completely stop the economic, social, cultural, sporting, family life of the French.

This is why we take decisions which are adapted to the gravity of the moment ”and which are“ territorialized ”, he defended.

Thus, since this week, the Aix-Marseille metropolis and Guadeloupe have been placed in the maximum alert zone, a classification which is accompanied by very restrictive measures (including the total closure of bars and restaurants for two weeks).

Eleven other cities, including Paris, are in a heightened alert zone, again with restrictive measures but less than in the “maximum” zone.

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