Prime Minister Jean Castex on December 9, 2020 in Essonne.
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AFP
The rumor swelled since Wednesday, the ax fell.
Prime Minister Jean Castex announced this Thursday during a press conference organized with six members of his government, the generalization of the curfew from this Saturday evening at 6 p.m. throughout the metropolitan territory, beyond the 25 departments already concerned, to try to curb the coronavirus epidemic.
"It appears from the data available to date that this measure has health efficiency: in the 15 departments where the measure has been applied since January 2, the increase is two to three times lower than in other metropolitan departments", a explained the Prime Minister.
The executive had been preparing the spirits for several days for this new turn of the screw.
“It's a social virus.
The interest is
counter the aperitif effect, if I may say so, ”Stanislas Guerini, the boss of LREM, argued on Wednesday on BFMTV.
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