Nicolas Feldmann, edited by Antoine Terrel 07:12, September 20, 2021

As the epidemic situation improves, could the government relax restrictions in certain territories particularly spared by the virus? This is the wish of certain elected officials including Fabien Bazin, president of the Departmental Council of Nièvre, who asks the executive on Europe 1 to "look at the health reality on the ground". 

Are we heading towards a partial lifting of the restrictions linked to Covid-19?

The reflection is in any case open, let know the executive for a few days.

As the epidemic situation improves, "there is a reflection on how we can adapt the rules, either the health pass, perhaps others, to the local situation and to the evolution of the local situation. "Government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Sunday.

A Defense Council must also look into a possible adaptation of the rules on Wednesday.

The government is particularly scrutinizing the incidence rate in the territories. 

Different situations depending on the territory

While the alert threshold is set at 50, today around thirty departments are well below the average.

This is the case, for example, in Vendée, in the Somme, in Corrèze, or even in the Nièvre.

In the latter department, Fabien Bazin, president of the departmental council, therefore believes that it is time to reduce health measures.

"It is the next day or the evening of the Defense Council that it is necessary to take the measures to suspend the health pass", he claims at the microphone of Europe 1, asking the government "to look at the health reality of the ground". 

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"The situation in cities like Paris-Lyon-Marseille and that of Nièvre is obviously different in terms of attendance," he insists.

"In restaurants, we can see that it does not make sense when you have three people seated on a terrace and from whom we will ask for the sanitary pass when there are five meters between the couple and the person who is sipping his coffee. It's science fiction. "

"Too early", according to some specialists

Also, continues the elected, "one can quite think that in a territory like that of Nièvre, a partial or total lifting of the measures, and I am thinking particularly of the sanitary pass, would be of good quality insofar as one is at the level of circulation of the virus which allows it ". 

But be careful not to go too fast, warns Dominique Costagliola, research director at Inserm. "I think it's too early," says this specialist. "You have to look at the circulation of the virus and therefore the incidence rates for at least 4 to 6 weeks to say to yourself 'it looks calm, we can go there'. And then I always have a question about measures local ... We can't rule out that people are on the move, so it's hard to understand the consequences that could have on transmissions. "