While his word was expected, the President of the Republic spoke in a tweet on Saturday evening.
He declares to have "confidence in us".
The day before, Prime Minister Jean Castex had announced a series of restrictive measures, the last attempt to stem the epidemic before installing new containment.
The current moment in the health crisis is "crucial", estimated President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday, the day after the announcement of new measures against the Covid-19 epidemic.
"I have confidence in us. The hours that we are living are crucial. Let us do everything to curb the epidemic together", tweeted the head of state at the end of the day.
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I trust us.
The hours we live in are crucial.
Let's do everything to curb the epidemic together.
- Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) January 30, 2021
Latest card
The executive played a last card on Friday to avoid a third confinement by strengthening several restrictive measures.
Prime Minister Jean Castex, who announced the closure of borders with countries outside the European Union, and the closure of large non-food shopping centers, had said "to do everything possible to avoid" this third confinement which seemed inevitable the last days.
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Some 23,000 new contaminations over 24 hours were recorded Friday, while the fear relates first to an explosion of cases caused by the British and South African variants which would now represent a tenth of cases in France.
The rate of deaths is not decreasing, with 356 deaths in hospital on Friday, bringing the total toll since the start of the epidemic to 75,620.