While Jean Castex has just announced his vaccination strategy, the executive is working at the same time on another hot issue: the scenario of a third wave sweeping over France in January, in the midst of a vaccination campaign for the elderly and the most vulnerable.
The epidemic reflux continues in France but the executive is already preparing for a new threat: a potential third wave.
If epidemiologists have been warning about it for some time now, the executive has so far refused to mention it.
Jean Castex broke the ice at the start of the week: "We are preventing flows, interactions and contacts so as not to have a third wave in January", he stressed, a few days before the announcement of his strategy of vaccination.
A third wave in the middle of the vaccination campaign?
Matignon's objective is to show that the government is on the bridge.
The President of the Republic is also on his guard.
During a lunch at the Elysee Palace shared a few days ago with the President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, he explained that a third wave was currently sweeping over Asia and that it would inevitably hit Europe in stride .
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Pessimistic projections, which involve this potential third wave in the midst of a vaccination campaign for the elderly and the most vulnerable, which should take place in January 2021. A telescoping that could be catastrophic both in terms of health and politics, then that the noose seemed to loosen as Christmas approached.
If it breaks well, this third wave could well disrupt the timetable set by the government, which so far expects a return to normal life next summer.