Jacques Serais, edited by Gauthier Delomez with AFP 9:54 p.m., November 15, 2021

French leaders are watching closely the evolution of the health situation in Austria, while the country has just decided to contain unvaccinated people from this Monday to fight against the epidemic resumption. A measure that is not yet under study in France, even if the idea is not completely excluded.

Can we get there in France? This is a question that annoys the government. It is still legitimate because Austria became, this weekend, the first country in Europe to decide on the confinement of unvaccinated people to stem the resumption of the Covid-19 epidemic. A "difficult" measure but which "is already bearing fruit" according to Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg, citing "the massive increase in registrations in vaccination centers". If the French leaders are focusing their attention on the Austrian case, such a measure is not yet topical in France.

Outside the microphone, some ministers do not go there by four ways.

"The containment of unvaccinated people already exists in France", plague a member of the government with Europe 1, as if the health pass was already the ultimate constraint for those who have not received their dose.

A false statement since this French health pass can be valid thanks to a simple test.

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It is a sign of a certain tension in the macronia to see these questions of control come back to the fore. Especially since for the moment, no meeting or no discussion is on the agenda to harden the rules or think about a reconfinement, even partial.

The presidential majority does not want to reach the same point as Austria, says the boss of LREM deputies Christophe Castaner.

"We are not there, but we are not ruling out any leads," said a minister.

Proof that caution is required as the epidemic is on the rise and the executive wants to do everything to avoid contradicting itself from one week to the next.

This is why the government intends to hammer out only one message in the coming days, that of the promotion of vaccination while 20% of French people are still reluctant to do so.