Presidential health report, day 2. After a video in which Emmanuel Macron announced on Friday that he was going "well" despite "a little slowed down", the Elysee reported, Saturday, December 19, a "stable" state of health of the President of the Republic compared to the day before.

The Head of State, in isolation in the official residence of La Lanterne in Versailles, "still presents the same symptoms of the Covid-19 disease (fatigue, cough, muscle aches) which in no way prevent him from fulfilling his functions ", adds the brief press release, signed by Doctor Jean-Christophe Perrochon, Chief Medical Officer of the Presidency of the Republic.

Friday, Emmanuel Macron had promised to "report every day on the evolution of the disease" by giving his news for the first time through a three-minute video filmed with his smartphone and published on social networks.

"There is normally no reason for things to go wrong, but I am under medical supervision and I will report to you in a completely transparent manner," he stressed.

Dressed in a dark turtleneck, the president, the slow flow and the features a little drawn, said in this video to suffer from "fatigue, headaches, dry cough".

"Worrisome" resumption of the epidemic in France

Emmanuel Macron had also insisted that he had tested positive Thursday as "18,000 French and French" that day.

"So the virus is coming off even stronger, so we must be vigilant", even if the health rules "weigh you down".

"But we must hold on," he said, repeatedly using an inclusive "we".

The number of deaths caused by the coronavirus epidemic in France crossed the 60,000 mark on Friday, to 60,229 people, according to figures from Public Health France.

The health authorities have been worried for several days of a "worrying" resumption of the epidemic, on the eve of the end of the year holidays.

A finding established on the basis of a "resumption" of contamination on a weekly basis.

Last week, nearly 80,000 screening tests (PCR or antigen) were recorded, 10% more than the previous week.

On Friday, Public Health France reported 15,674 people tested positive over 24 hours, against 18,254 the day before.

The positivity rate - which measures the percentage of people infected in relation to the number of tests - is 5.9%, down slightly from 6.1% on Thursday.

With AFP

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