Guest of Europe Soir Week-end, the current mayor of Dijon François Rebsamen believes that the government should not reconfigure the country before an explosion of positive cases is observed.
This is in any case what he explained to the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, when the latter called him to probe him on this subject.
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"A high plateau, but no explosion of cases."
While an Ehpad in Dijon saw the first French vaccinations against the coronavirus on Sunday, a "historic" moment according to François Rebsamen, the hypothesis of a third confinement is increasingly present within the government.
But "if we can hold on without reconfiguring, let's do it," said at the microphone of Europe Soir Week-end, the mayor of Dijon and chairman of the board of directors of the local hospital center.
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"Wait a bit before tightening the confinement"
"I just had the Minister of Health Olivier Véran on the phone, and he asked me my feelings on this possibility. I told him that here [in Dijon] we are on a high plateau without however there is an explosion in the number of cases. "
The former Minister of Labor therefore asked Olivier Véran "to wait a little before toughening the confinement": "as long as it holds, it is not worth it. People, at least in Dijon, are responsible . "
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A "risk of rupture" in the event of new confinement
Especially since a third confinement would be "very delicate" advance the councilor.
Fearing a "risk of rupture" of the population, François Rebsamen recalls that confinement is "hard for people, especially during the holiday season".