The day after Emmanuel Macron's speech, who announced a re-containment, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran insisted on the urgency of the measure.
According to him, around one million French people are carriers, and therefore "potentially transmitters", of Covid-19.
The coronavirus now appears to be out of control in the territory.
According to the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, we can estimate at "one million" the number of French people currently carrying the new coronavirus, he announced on franceinfo.
"We have tried by all means to avoid confinement" and "the curfew has made it possible to slow down the spread of the virus", but "it is a European wave which is falling", a- he commented.
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Olivier Véran defended the reconfinement announced by President Emmanuel Macron.
"The State guarantees the health security of the French and takes its responsibilities".
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The Minister of Health admitted that the previous measure, the curfew, had been rather little understood, specifying all the same: "
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[The confinement], it is nobody's failure.
The virus is a microscopic, invisible enemy.
Our enemy is the virus
".
An enemy which is becoming more and more difficult to follow and to counter. The government hopes to be able to take stock of the effectiveness of the containment" after a month ", on the date end announced by Emmanuel Macron.But according to information from Europe 1, the government would not rule out extending the confinement for a period of 8 to 12 weeks.