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The scenarios include various options, from maintaining the status quo to a very strict quarantine, a government spokesman said.
To make the decision, the head of state, Emmanuel Macron, requested a deeper analysis of the possible scenarios and their implications, but maintaining the status quo seems less likely, Gabriel Attal emphasized.
The curfew has a “relative effect”, according to the government spokesman, which is “real but not sufficient at this time” because although it is slowing the spread of the virus, it is not fast enough, while more contagious variants are becoming extending the country.
The rate of the highly contagious British variant in the Paris region was 9.4 percent between January 11 and 22, according to a study by the board of directors of public hospitals in Paris, making the admission of patients in hospitals is again “very significant.”
The government will consult with parliament and unions in the coming days on possible solutions.
A government spokesman acknowledged – and this explains the government’s caution – that the “French were tired” of the restrictions due to the health situation.
According to a poll conducted on Wednesday by the Elabe polling agency, BFM, 52 percent of the French do not support another closure as close as that of spring, while the slightly softer version of November would be accepted by the majority, the 52 percent.
In the spring, 93 percent of French people agreed to the closure and in the fall the rate was 67 percent.
In France, a second general lockdown was implemented for six weeks starting on October 29, replaced by a nightly curfew starting at 8 p.m. in mid-December. The beginning of this was announced by the government at ten in the afternoon ten days ago.
“There is no longer a consensus around the quarantine, France is divided,” said the leader of the investigation Bernard Sananes. “We must not forget that the consensus was there and it was very stable. We were all surprised how much the French adopted this measure during the first quarantine,” he added.
While the epidemic situation is deteriorating, but not as dramatically and vertiginously as before previous closures, the daily number of cases stalled at an average of around 20,000 per week, 26,916 new afternoons have been reported in the last 24 hours.
Hospital admissions began to rise a week ago, with an average of 2,000 a day, and hospitals currently treat 27,169 infected, 128 more than on Tuesday, of which more than 3,000 are already in the intensive care unit, which is the critical level. The number of seriously ill patients has increased by 26 in the last 24 hours, currently 3,107.
Since the beginning of the epidemic, 74,456 people have died in France, 350 in the last 24 hours and 1.2 million have been vaccinated.
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