Covid: Macron will present "the prospects" of deconfinement in the regional press on Friday

Emmanuel Macron will speak this Friday but not in a televised address.

Ian LANGSDON POOL / AFP

Text by: Julien Chavanne

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He had promised on March 31 to return to the French to announce the next stages of a very gradual deconfinement.

Emmanuel Macron will speak this Friday, April 30, but not in a televised address.

The Head of State changes his formula: he will answer questions from the regional daily press.

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It's part of her morning routine.

Every day, Emmanuel Macron reads the headlines of regional newspapers.

One of its field sensors.

After more than a year of health crisis, the French president chooses this less solemn format, closer to the daily life of the French, to reveal what their life will look like in the coming weeks.

Will the curfew be shifted?

Will the vaccination be open to people under 55?

When will museums and restaurants finally be able to welcome the public?

Emmanuel Macron must decide.

The level of the Covid epidemic is declining but remains at a high level.

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Patience.

The executive has already warned: the lifting of restrictions will be very slow, in several phases with easing every two weeks, until this summer.

The scenario of a territorialisation of measures is also on the table.

The least exposed departments would deconfin faster than the areas still in the red.

As Emmanuel Macron said in front of CM2 students last Monday: " 

We have to go slowly to prevent it from starting again

 ".

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