Parisien

 More than ever, our eyes are on the indicators

Le Parisien

The data from this start of the week should make it possible to definitively conclude whether the advanced curfew at 6 p.m. across the country on January 16 can remain sufficient.

Yesterday Monday, the number of cases increased for the eleventh day in a row.

With a sad record for two months of 445 new victims announced last night.

At the same time, the threshold of 3,000 people in intensive care was crossed for the first time since December 9.

Le Parisien

The lockdown, as the English say is probable.

 the world of culture, commerce and industry do not hear it that way.

Advisors and evening texters alert the president, the newspaper understands, on the economic risks of a France at a standstill, still pleading for partial restrictions on movement and activities.

The distress caused by the isolation which undermines the morale of an entire society and of its youth in particular.

A distress which would concern 20% of the French.

Liberation

to decree a third confinement, also said the man who whispers his recommendations in the ear of the President 

It is up to the political authorities to reflect and decide.

 The executive is sailing more than ever in the fog

Le Monde

On Wednesday, Emmanuel Macron must therefore chair a health defense council and decide whether or not he intends to pronounce a new generalized confinement of the country.

Officially, his entourage ensures that

including the status quo, even a reduction in measures if the curve of the epidemic were to falter in the days to come.

A highly improbable scenario. 

Le Monde

 within the executive, opinions differ on the relevance of preventive confinement.

argues an Elyos adviser, who is worried about possible

However, before making his decision, the President of the Republic wants to rely on tangible data

The results of studies to assess the effectiveness of the 6 p.m. curfew nationally as well as the rate at which variants are released are announced for Wednesday.

They will be decisive, ensure several sources within the executive, to adjust the response to the gradual increase in contamination (…). 

La Charente Libre

Since it is always a question of limiting mixing: in addition to reinforcing teleworking and extending the holidays schools which start in two weeks, is it not possible, wonders the newspaper, to limit our movements in a space larger than one's home, on the scale of a region for example?

And in it to open up.

With a deferred curfew depending on the intensity of the epidemic, we could then revive activities that have been dormant since November.

Those of universities but also activities that have never created clusters, such as cinema, theater. 

La Charente Libre

Since we will still have to live with this virus for a long time, now is the time to adapt to it and not to suffer from it indefinitely.

Perhaps we should see in the presidential choice to delay a few more days as a first positive sign to try to imagine ourselves other than re-defined.