Gabriel Attal, January 20, 2021. -

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Government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Sunday that faced with the increase in Covid-19 cases, no decision had yet been taken on a possible re-containment, but that "all the scenarios are on the table".

"We had defined our ability to fully control the epidemic since there would be 5,000 cases per day on average, we are now at 20,000", indicated Gabriel Attal during the broadcast of France 3 "Sunday in Politics ".

Asked about the possibility of a new confinement, the government spokesman assured: "There is no decision taken and the next few days will be decisive", but "in principle, all the scenarios are on the table"

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"In the week, we will be able to form an opinion on this question of the curfew at 6 p.m. (established nationally on January 16), and its sufficient or insufficient impact on the circulation of the virus," said Gabriel Attal.

And to add: "Since the beginning of this crisis, the president has always been, like the Prime Minister, at the rendezvous when difficult measures had to be taken, and they had to be explained to the French".

Wednesday, the key day

“There is a meeting this week - you know that we meet around the President and the Prime Minister every week in a defense council, it's Wednesday - and there is a point that is made every week. week at that time, ”Gabriel Attal recalled.

In an interview with the readers of the newspaper

Le Parisien

published on Sunday, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran said to wait "to be fixed on the effects of the curfew" next week.

"If that does not decrease and if the variants [of Covid-19] start to spread everywhere", the government "will take additional measures" (...) "And that is called confinement", he warned .

"A confinement is a statement of failure" according to Dupont-Aignan

MP LR Eric Ciotti fears that the re-containment is "inevitable given the evolution of the figures".

"We must better take very strong measures now" especially in the face of variants of the virus, rather than "half-measures" as since September, he said on BFMTV, acknowledging that the "health and economic trade-offs" were difficult.

For his part, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, leader of the sovereignist party Debout la France, judges that "confinement is a statement of failure".

"Containment is the death of the country, containment is a health dictatorship and I would like it to be avoided," he added on LCI.

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan was "in favor of the first confinement, because there were no masks, because the country was taken by surprise".

But according to him, the second confinement "could have been avoided if we had taken the measures I had requested", such as border control "which the government took months to take".

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