Paris (AFP)
Aid to compensate for the economic losses linked to curfews will cost one billion euros but a re-containment would have cost up to 20 times more, estimated Friday the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire.
The cost of the measures to support the economy announced Thursday amounted to "one billion euros for the duration of the curfew", confirmed Mr. Le Maire on BFMTV / RMC.
In comparison, "if we carried out a real re-containment in areas where the virus is actively circulating - and only in these areas - the cost would be five billion euros", according to the minister.
He added that he would prefer "that we take strong, rapid, circumscribed, immediate measures and that we strongly support the sectors which are most concerned rather than being in this situation of general reconfinement which would be unbearable psychologically, socially and for finances. public ".
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