Does this beginning of deconfinement mark liberation for good?

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A café terrace in Brussels, May 9, 2021. Second day of the reopening of the terraces in Belgium.

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By: Guillaume Naudin Follow

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Reopening of cultural venues, cinemas, restaurant and café terraces, so-called non-essential stores, it is little to say that tomorrow is expected in France.

It will be a bit the same in Austria, and in New York in the United States, as well as in many Western countries where the Covid-19 pandemic tends to decrease more or less quickly.

In Great Britain, where thanks to a faster vaccination campaign, we had taken the lead, the atmosphere is no longer quite the same because of the dissemination of the Indian variant described as worrying.

Does this beginning of deconfinement mark liberation for good?

This is the question of the day.

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To discuss it

:

- Jean-Stéphane Dhersin

, specialist in epidemic modeling.

Professor at the University of Paris Nord.

Scientific deputy director at the National Institute of Mathematical Sciences and their interactions of the CNRS.

Responsible for the Covid-19 modeling coordination platform,

MODCOV19

- Mahmoud Zureik

, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

- Antoine Flahault

, epidemiologist and professor of public health at the University of Geneva, director of the Institute of Global Health at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva.

Author of the book “

Covid, the masked ball

”, Éditions Dunod (2021).

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