Santas, in London on August 24, 2020. -
Kirsty Wigglesworth
With the second wave of coronavirus and the re-containment, the holiday season could be expected to take an unusual turn.
Olivier Véran has just confirmed this to us.
Christmas "will not be a normal holiday" this year and "it is difficult to envisage big evenings" for the New Years Eve of December 31, warns the Minister of Health.
"Our goal is for the epidemic pressure to fall so that we can go shopping on time, prepare with joy, so that the conditions are created allowing families to meet again", hopes Olivier Véran, however, in an interview with the
Journal du Sunday
.
"If the braking is successful" thanks to a respected containment, "the number of contaminations could drop in the coming days, leading, in two weeks, to a drop in new serious cases", he adds.
"Avoid a third wave"
He specifies that should fall "in two or three days the first elements allowing to assess the impact of the curfew measures", put in place in mid-October, before giving way to the new confinement since Friday.
Asked about possible successive waves, the minister indicates that the objective "is to break the second wave as soon as possible so that it does not cause too many victims".
It will then be necessary "to maintain a level of protection of the population sufficient to avoid a third wave while awaiting the vaccine".
In this regard, he says he is "moderately optimistic about our ability to have a vaccine in the coming months".
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