Olivier Véran warns: with the Covid, Christmas "will not be a normal holiday"

Christmas "will not be a normal holiday" this year and "it is difficult to envisage big evenings" for the New Years Eve of December 31, warned the Minister of Health Olivier Véran.

The minister hopes, however, that sanitary conditions will allow "families to find each other", while France entered a second general confinement on Friday. 

"Our goal is for the epidemic pressure to fall so that we can go shopping on time, prepare with joy, so that the conditions are created allowing families to reunite," said the minister in an interview with the

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"The number of contaminations could drop in the coming days" 

"If the braking is successful" thanks to a respected containment, "the number of contaminations could drop in the coming days, leading, in two weeks, to a drop in new serious cases", added Olivier Véran.

He specifies that should fall "in two or three days the first elements allowing to assess the impact of the curfew measures", put in place in mid-October, before giving way to the new confinement since Friday.

Asked about possible successive waves, the minister indicates that the objective "is to break the second wave as soon as possible so that it does not cause too many victims".

It will then be necessary "to maintain a level of protection of the population sufficient to avoid a third wave while awaiting the vaccine".

In this regard, he says he is "moderately optimistic about our ability to have a vaccine in the coming months".