Despite the first day of confinement, many French people were moving in the streets and stations of metropolitan areas on Friday.

"If people try to bypass the containment measures, we could have a failure," alert Bruno Mégarbane of the intensive care unit of the Lariboisière hospital, Saturday on Europe 1.

With nearly 50,000 new cases of coronavirus recorded on Friday in the previous 24 hours, contaminations are not weakening in France.

And compared to last March, the new version of containment has been relaxed somewhat.

Conclusion: the first images from metropolises seem very different.

Stores banned from opening who choose to defy the ban, many people on the roads, in the trains, in the streets… It did not take more to worry the caregivers.

"If people try to bypass the containment measures, we could have a failure as we have known with the curfew", warns Bruno Mégarbane, head of the resuscitation service at the Parisian hospital Lariboisière, Saturday on Europe 1.

>> LIVE - 

Coronavirus: follow the evolution of the situation Saturday, October 31

"It depends on each of us"

"It is expected in ten days a total saturation of the resuscitation beds by Covid-19. And therefore very great difficulties in sight for the care of other patients. It would of course be necessary very quickly to break the rhythm of circulation. of the virus and this depends on each of us, "he continues.

Little reassured, the hospital worker believes that "of course, there are government health decisions, but then there is also their application to the scale of daily life by each of us".

CORONAVIRUS ESSENTIALS

> Containment: here are the certificates to download to get around

> What are the scenarios for exiting containment?

> When are we in contact?

And other questions that we ask ourselves every day

> Coronavirus: the 5 mistakes not to make with your mask

> Does wearing a mask promote bad breath?

"Do not try in any way to bypass the closures"

"It is absolutely necessary to stick to the decisions taken and not to try in any way to circumvent the requested store closures, the stopping of gatherings and the limitation of travel, sources of the continued spread of the virus in the population", he concludes.