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Olivier Véran announced a possible easing of health restrictions, including the end of wearing a mask indoors in mid-March. However, he remains cautious and does not rule out a summer wave.
This Wednesday, February 16, several reductions in health restrictions are planned. The Minister of Health Olivier Véran was once again optimistic about the health situation linked to Covid-19 on the set of France info this morning. “If we continue on this dynamic, we will be able to completely get out of the wave in a few weeks” he assured. “It’s definitely improving everywhere” same “if there are still a lot of sick people in the hospital”.
As of February 28, we already know that wearing a mask indoors will no longer be compulsory in places where the vaccination pass is required.. This time, he mentioned the possibility of stopping the wearing of masks in mid-March everywhere indoors for adults and children. “We could also start to lighten the vaccination pass” he explained, but it would then be necessary “Keep it in places that are very at risk, such as nightclubs and there it would be until the end of March, the beginning of April”.
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To lift all these restrictions, the conditions must be met. “The conditions met means that the hospital is in normal operating condition, that we are no longer obliged to deprogram care, that the health load in intensive care does not exceed 1,000-1,500 patients. This what the models tell us today is that the circulation of the virus continues, but that it is very weak in our country”.
However, the Minister of Health qualifies: “it is likely that the virus will still be talked about in the future, the latest will be next winter. We cannot exclude a form of summer wave as we experienced last year or the year previous one but we are a little more reassured” he explains, emphasizing both the high contagiousness of the Omicron variant but also its low dangerousness. “We have reached a level of collective immunity, it will not do the damage of the previous waves”.
“The natural evolution would be that we will still hear about the Covid (…) on the other hand that we should live with a little more tranquility, at least in the coming months.”