Covid: "Everything must be done to delay" confinement, says Prime Minister Jean Castex

Prime Minister Jean Castex, here in Paris on January 14, 2021. AP - Thomas Coex

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Despite the deterioration of the health situation, "everything must be done to delay" confinement in order to "give the vaccination time to produce effects", declared Thursday Jean Castex at a joint press conference with the Minister of Olivier Véran Health.

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Containment is a lever to which we must resort when we cannot do otherwise.

It must be done wisely, at the right time and in the right measure,

 ”added the Prime Minister during a press conference.

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