Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, October 16, 2020. -
AFP
Towards tougher measures against the coronavirus epidemic?
"We must expect difficult decisions", admitted this Tuesday the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin, before the opening of a Defense Council dedicated to the management of the health crisis.
"I do not know what exactly" these decisions will be, added the minister, while France is heading towards a toughening of measures "like all our European neighbors".
What I see is that the curfew is very well respected.
There were only 14,000 reports drawn up, 14,620 to be exact ”, for non-compliance with the curfew since October 17, he declared.
Two hypotheses considered by the executive
20,000 establishments open to the public have also been checked since that date, his entourage told AFP.
This gave rise to "438 administrative measures (put in residences, etc.)" including "11 closures".
President Emmanuel Macron meets on Tuesday morning and then Wednesday morning two Defense Councils devoted to the second wave of the epidemic.
Its Prime Minister Jean Castex will receive the political leaders then the social partners at Matignon at the end of the day.
These two meetings around Jean Castex aim to discuss "the hardening envisaged in the management of the health crisis", indicated Matignon.
To fight against a "critical" situation, "two hypotheses" are on the table, estimated Monday the President of the Scientific Council, Jean-François Delfraissy: "go towards a more massive curfew" or "go directly to confinement, less hard ”than that of March.
A new record was broken on Sunday with 52,000 positive cases recorded in 24 hours.
More than 26,700 new cases were identified on Monday, according to Public Health France.
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