A week of Christmas, the Elysée urgently programmed a health defense council, Friday, to fight against the epidemic, which has regained strength with the emergence of the Omicron variant.
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New screw tower in sight. A health defense council is planned on Friday, December 17, afternoon, at the Elysee, around Emmanuel Macron. A meeting scheduled in the emergency, Wednesday, December 15, in order to adapt the system in force and, according to the executive, “give visibility to the French” before the end-of-year celebrations facing the recrudescence of cases of COVID-19 and hospitalizations.
Wednesday noon, the Government spokesman, Gabriel Attal, announced that the executive was considering taking new steps to fight the epidemic, which found effect with the emergence of the new variant, Omicron , very contagious. There could be “new decisions by the end of the week (…) to take the necessary measures,” said Attal, at the exit of the Council of Ministers, preventing the number of patients hospitalized In resuscitation should reach 4,000 around the holidays.
According to the information in the world, the executive does not intend to upset the strategy followed in recent weeks, which consists in acting on all possible anti-Covid-19 tools, without taking too restrictive measures in terms of freedom of movement. In other words, neither confinement nor curfew or prohibition of moving for the end of year holidays are under consideration.
Recommendations for the holidays
As Mr. Attal said, Wednesday, the government is moving towards an acceleration of the vaccination campaign, strengthening border controls and the implementation of family celebrations. According to a source within the executive, a call to be tested massively before family rendering would also be likely.
On Wednesday, during a hearing before the deputies, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, has also mentioned several avenues, including “accompanying measures” for the holidays, as well as a shortening. The delay in carrying out its recall dose, currently set at five months after initial vaccination.
The next handle situation raises frights at the top of the state. Faced with a soaring contamination related to the Omicron Variant, the United Kingdom reported on Wednesday of 78,610 positive cases recorded in twenty-four hours, a record since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, according to official figures. “It does not affect anything good because we can imagine that we have two weeks ahead of them”, observes an executive advisor.
Given the current rapid progress of cases, the Omicron variant could become dominant among COVID-19 infections in Europe by mid-January, warned Wednesday the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen .