"We are heading towards containment", believes the president of the Grand-Est

Jean Rottner, president of the Grand-Est region and emergency doctor.

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• The president of the Grand-Est region openly raised the possibility of a reconfinement.

  According to Jean Rottner, it would be adapted according to local situations.

• Or ?

  The emergency doctor by profession recommended "to insist more particularly" on areas "where there are more than 1,000 positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants".

• "I ask that we can discuss it before it is too late (...), rather than waiting another fifteen days or three weeks for the government to open discussions with local elected officials, with trade unions and employers", insisted the chosen one.

What if the French were confined again?

This scenario, feared by many, is circulating more and more.

The president of the Grand-Est region Jean Rottner (LR) mentioned it this Monday morning on France Info by evoking "a reconfinement adapted" to local situations.

Or ?

The emergency doctor by profession recommended "to insist more particularly" on areas "where there are more than 1,000 positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants".

We must "preserve a certain form of economic activity, adapt our public transport, spread out the hours of work taking" and "perhaps keep school activity", he pleaded.

Still questioned on the probability of a reconfinement, he stressed that "the figures are relentless" with "more than 50,000 new positive cases" recorded in 24 hours, and "the threshold of 1,000 deaths per week" already exceeded. .

Tonight I assembled my executive.

🔴I am certain that we are heading towards containment.

👉 Different from the first.

🟢 But we are going to have to anticipate, listen, invent and help.

📌 I asked each of them to be ready this week pic.twitter.com/BNx3rFTz3l

- Jean ROTTNER (@JeanROTTNER) October 25, 2020

"I ask that these discussions really open between the government and the intermediary bodies and the local elected officials," continued Jean Rottner.

We don't need a weekly or fortnightly press conference, we need dialogue, consultation, education.

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"One or two trains late"

"I ask that we can discuss it before it is too late (...), rather than waiting another fifteen days or three weeks for the government to open discussions with local elected officials, with trade unions and employers", insisted the chosen one.

According to him, Emmanuel Macron “must speak out” and “start a form of dialogue so that France is not blocked”.

"The epidemic is in front of us", and we have "one or two trains behind", he again warned.

The president of the Grand-Est region, a region which was one of the first and most violently affected by the first wave of the epidemic, cited the example of Israel which, "at the cost of fairly severe confinement , in two weeks, has managed to break its epidemic curve.

I'm not saying that we should do this in France, but let's open the debate.

If there is to be reconfinement in ten days or in fifteen days, let's talk about it now, that we prepare the French ”.

In a tweet published on Sunday evening, Jean Rottner was more affirmative, saying he was "certain that we are going towards containment".

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