Government spokesperson Gabriel Attal in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, March 14, 2021. -

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The executive is trying to reassure the French who find the time for restrictions against Covid-19 increasingly long.

On LCI Sunday, the government spokesman thus affirmed that “these measures have been announced for four weeks.

It is not expected that they will go beyond 4 weeks at this stage ”.

In order not to give false hopes either, Gabriel Attal wished to immediately measure these remarks by recalling that "should never exclude anything in principle for the future".

“There is a timetable announced by the President of the Republic.

If this calendar has been announced, it is because we know, we believe, that everyone's efforts will make it possible to keep it, ”explained Gabriel Attal.

The President of the Republic could also speak again to the French "by the end of the month".

The government "begins to see signals which can make optimistic on the measures which had been put in place" in 16 then 19 departments and extended since Wednesday to all the metropolitan territory, "with the beginning of stabilization of the epidemic", a specified the spokesperson.

"All this encourages us to continue, to maintain our efforts," he stressed.

Vaccines for some teachers

Gabriel Attal also indicated that there was "no quantified criterion which has been announced at this stage to lift the measures" but that the government would, in the coming weeks, look at "the dynamics of the epidemic" .

“We have to get out of this exponential.

We have an increasing circulation of the virus ”.

With vaccination "the situation has changed", he argued.

"It clears the horizon to anticipate and to plan to remove a certain number of constraints".

On vaccination precisely, Gabriel Attal specified that "by the end of April", the government wanted "to start a first campaign aimed at certain teachers, in particular [those] who are in contact with children in situation. of handicap ”, that is to say 80,000 people.

It could be extended "during the month of May, being able to expand" to other professions "particularly exposed" to Covid-19.

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