President Emmanuel Macron should address the French next week to discuss the steps in the coming months concerning the health crisis due to the coronavirus.

Meanwhile, the government is already working on a new deconfinement strategy.

Prime Minister Jean Castex has already said he will be very progressive. 

A Health Defense Council followed by the Council of Ministers, that was the government's program this Wednesday morning.

The first scenarios of deconfinement and the first thoughts on what Emmanuel Macron could announce were on the program.

The president is due to speak again next week to discuss the stages of the coming months.

The arbitration of this progressive deconfinement is difficult to carry out.

Deconfinement in stages 

From Tuesday evening, Prime Minister Jean Castex, before the parliamentary commission of inquiry on the management of the health crisis due to Covid-19, set the tone.

Deconfinement will be done in stages, with two watchwords: prudence and progressivity.

"There will be braking provisions in the course of setting which will continue to avoid there being too much difference between a period of confinement and a period of deconfinement", declared the Prime Minister.  

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No

stop and go

, like in May.

And the first stage of this deconfinement will take place on December 1, with the reopening of non-essential businesses in city centers and closed shelves in supermarkets.

But the date is not completely decided between December 1 and November 27, day of Black Friday.

The answer will not come until next week. 

A glimmer of hope has also shone in the sports world.

The clubs could reopen on this occasion to welcome children, said the Prime Minister.

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A new curfew? 

But in order not to open the valves suddenly and risk a new outbreak of contamination, confinement could be immediately followed by a curfew.

A scenario already mentioned by the President of the Scientific Council, Jean-François Delfraissy, on the eve of the reconfinement.

A braking measure that leaves many questions unanswered: will there be room for maneuver for the Christmas holidays if the numbers for the epidemic continue to fall?

What exceptions to the curfew will be possible?

Will the trips be made without a certificate or with a new reason?

Can family dinners take place for 6 or 10 people?

The difficulty is to place the cursor.

This is the government's current puzzle.