Didier Pittet, chief medical officer and director of the Collaborating Center for the WHO, estimated on Europe 1 on Sunday that with the new "logical" measures taken by the government, it was possible "not to re-define".

"It would be possible and playable from the moment we manage to maintain the transmission chains, understand them and stop them," he said.

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"If we manage to keep up with the new measures, we could really not reconfine," said Didier Pittet, chief medical officer and director of the Collaborating Center for the WHO, Sunday on Europe 1. "It would be possible and playable from from the moment we manage to maintain the chains of transmission, understand them and stop them ".

However, he tempered his remarks with regard to the spread of the English variant.

"If unfortunately this new variant is much more prevalent than expected, it will be more complicated. And it will be within three weeks I think based on data in other countries."

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