Head of State Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday that it was necessary to "move towards more restrictions" in areas where the Covid-19 "circulates too fast".
For Grégory Doucet, the mayor of Lyon, a city which could switch to maximum alert zone Thursday, it is "not worth going further".
The weekly press conference of Minister of Health Olivier Véran will take place Thursday at 6 p.m., while President Emmanuel Macron felt that it was necessary to "go towards more restrictions" in areas where the Covid-19 "circulates too much quick".
Olivier Véran could therefore announce the switch to the maximum alert zone of new cities, after Marseille and Paris.
A week ago, the minister pointed out five metropolises: Lille, Lyon, Grenoble, Saint-Etienne and Toulouse.
"The announcements, they can be a little far from certain realities", answers the ecological mayor of Lyon Grégory Doucet who considers that it is not necessary "to go further", Thursday on Europe 1.
Emmanuel Macron calls for restrictions for certain areas
"In places where it circulates too quickly, in particular where it circulates a lot among the elderly, who are the most vulnerable, and where we see more and more beds occupied in emergencies, we must move towards more restrictions, such as those we have known for example in the Bouches-du-Rhône or in Paris and the inner suburbs, "insisted Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday, during an interview on TF1 and France 2. The head of state however ruled out a new limitation of travel: "the strategy we have chosen is not this, it is to empower our citizens: we are not, and we will not be for several months in a normal time", he explained.
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The mayor of Lyon refutes the idea of closing bars
"In view of the latest data, it seems to me that we are still able" to face the epidemic, assures for his part the mayor of Lyon who underlines "the devices" put in place this week "on the elderly" and "young people".
"We are taking, it seems to me, the right additional measures. We are very, very responsive. I consider that today, we have the means in the city, in the Metropolis, to respond to the evolution of the epidemic ", judge Grégory Doucet.
Asked about the possible need to close the bars, the mayor of Lyon also replied that he did not want such a situation.
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18,746 new cases of coronavirus contamination have been detected in the past 24 hours on Wednesday, according to Public Health France, a record since the use of large-scale tests.
"The virus has been circulating faster for several weeks," said the President of the Republic.