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Impose stricter confinement for the elderly, more affected by severe forms of Covid-19?

No question, replied the government spokesperson.

Guest of the Grand rendez-vous Europe1 / LesEchos / Cnews, Gabriel Attal stressed in particular that this measure would be "ethically complicated".

"It is sometimes ignoring the situation of many elderly people who do not live alone and who sometimes live with several generations of the same family in the same apartment", he added.

The isolation of the elderly underlined by the Minister

The spokesperson also recalled that 30% of people currently in intensive care are under 60 years old.

"We can see that, including with younger people, resuscitations could gradually become saturated," he said.

Gabriel Attal acknowledged that the situation of the elderly during the reconfinement of this fall is "very hard".

“They are often isolated,” he stressed.

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