Determined to avoid any restrictive “Old” measurement, the Government has made the decision to let the virus spread, which forces it to continuous monitoring of the effects of the fifth wave on the state of hospitals .
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Less than a hundred days now separate Emmanuel Macron from the presidential election where he should play his re-election at the head of the country. Yet ever the election has also appeared far from the concerns of the French, obscured by the fifth wave of Covid-19 started with the variant delta and then amplified by the “bottom blade” Omicron. At the beginning of January, the President of the Republic therefore has no choice but to hide his political ambitions to fully devote himself to the management of a crisis where any missteole could be fatal.
Monday, January 3, a “follow-up cell”, was climb to Matignon bringing together around the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, a dozen ministers, including Bruno the Mayor (economy), Jean-Michel Blanquer (national education), Jean-Baptiste Djebari (transport) or Florence Parly (armies). Olivier Véran (health), occupied at the National Assembly to defend the vaccinal pass, was represented by his director of cabinet, as well as Gérald Darmanin (interior) on trip abroad. The issue of the device: Show that the executive is to the maneuver to allow the country to “continue to turn”, despite levels of contamination that explode all records.
With more than 200,000 daily COVID-19 cases, it is a question of ensuring that no strategic public service is threatened with paralysis because of absenteeism related to the virus. In case of tension, the executive intends to adopt the necessary corrective actions as soon as possible (recruitments, call for the use of retired personnel, etc.). After the announcement of the evolution of the isolation rules to enable contacts and contaminated and vaccinated persons, employees of strategic sectors, to regain the work more quickly, this meeting which will be followed by another, on the same Format, Thursday, January 6, and should become a weekly, confirms the choice of the executive: Living with Omicron, even letting it spread. “We must make sure to continue to live, despite the virus,” certifies Thomas Mesnier MP (LRM) of the Charente.
The vaccination remains the master card
If the contagiousness of Omicron sharpens, its lesser virulence suggests that such an option has become possible. But this fully assumed choice at the summit of the State is also guided by a guideline: in a France exhausted by nearly two years of pandemic, the executive is determined to avoid any restrictive measures “in the old”, including the School closures, curfews and, above all, confinement. “A year ago, Emmanuel Macron had made the political choice to refuse the containment against the opinion of scientists. Confining today it would take the risk of letting say it was a mistake. A few months of the presidential election, it can not afford it “, observes the Politologist Bruno Cautères, researcher at the CNRS and member of CEVIPOF.
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