Closure of nightclubs, strengthening of the health protocol at primary school, opening of the vaccination envisaged for all children: Jean Castex announced this Monday, December 6, 2021 a battery of measures against the fifth wave of Covid-19.
To halt the progression of the epidemic, which affects the 50,000 new daily cases, the Prime Minister has again decided to close nightclubs for four weeks from Friday, while the holiday season looms, during ” a press conference in the presence of its Minister of Health Olivier Véran. Sectors in difficulty will be compensated, promised the Prime Minister.
” We do this because the virus circulates a lot among young people, even vaccinated, because wearing a mask is extremely difficult in these establishments. », Added the Prime Minister. ” We also do this for consistency with the general message of caution “, He underlined.
This decision of the Prime Minister is a real blow to the profession and it was particularly unexpected
Christian Jouny, General Delegate of the National Union of Discotheques and Leisure Places (SNDLL)
Opening of vaccination for children aged 5 to 11
For schools, and while the spread of the virus has accelerated sharply among children under 12, the health protocol will be raised to level 3 for primary school, with the key to wearing a mask in schoolyards. , the limitation of contact sports and a new organization for canteen time ” in conjunction with local elected officials », Detailed Jean Castex.
” We will maintain our policy of systematic screening of all students if there is a positive case in the class and closing the class after three positive cases. “, he added.
The government also plans to open vaccination against Covid-19 ” to all the children “From 5 to 11 years old,” on a voluntary basis, if possible by the end of the year “. For the 360,000 children “at risk” of developing serious forms of the virus, vaccination has already received the green light from the High Authority for Health (HAS) and “ will start on December 15 », Indicated the head of government.
Human, material and financial resources are not on the table to be able to prepare schools for the pandemic today and tomorrow.
Reaction of the FCPE after the announcements of Jean Castex
To facilitate the vaccination among the elderly considered to be the most fragile, those over 65 will be able to access the reminder without an appointment, regardless of the center.
Limit social interactions and meetings
The Prime Minister also called on the French ” to ease off On social interactions. Concretely, it is a question of postponing the ceremonies, the departure drinks in companies. Jean Castex recommends doing the same in the private sphere. Within companies and the public service, the government targets two to three days of teleworking per week and wants to limit face-to-face meetings.
” By reducing the contamination rate by only 10% “, The hospital could avoid a new embolism, said Jean Castex, who considered that the establishment of” gauges “,” curfews “Or” containments “,” would be disproportionate ”In the current state of the epidemic.
” Without vaccination, insisted the Prime Minister, containment measures would certainly have already been taken, which is not the case today. And the goal is that this will not be the case tomorrow either. “
He also recalled the importance of the vaccine booster which “ boosts considerably Protection, adding that on December 30, more than 15 million people will have received a booster dose in France.
If the number of cases is again very high, the situation is not the same as there is. The French have massively vaccinated, this is the case for 52 million of us, and that has changed the situation.
Jean Castex announces the strengthening of the health protocol in France
Prevent circulation of the Omicron variant
Olivier Véran, Minister of Health also gave an update on the Omicron variant which is worrying. The Minister was speaking alongside Prime Minister Jean Castex, at the end of a Health Defense Council dedicated to the fifth wave of the epidemic.
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus is ” clearly more contagious, clearly not more dangerous “Than the Delta variant, which remains dominant in France, Health Minister Olivier Véran said on Monday.
The epidemic remains mainly due to the Delta variant, even if the detection in France of the first cases of the Omicron variant worries the health authorities. Especially since the fifth wave results in a clear deterioration of the indicators, with an average of more than 42,000 cases over seven days on Monday, against less than 7,000 a month ago. And as a consequence more than 12,000 hospitalized patients, the double of a month ago.
The health authorities do not want ” a wave in the wave “, Continued the minister,” so we slow down this variant, we prevent it from diffusing wherever it appears in the territory “. Twenty-five cases are now confirmed in France, according to the latest official report from the health authorities.
The European Center for Communicable Diseases considers that this variant could represent the majority of contamination by Covid-19 in Europe within a few months, which is why we are doing everything to curb its spread.
Olivier Véran provides an update on the Omicron variant
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With AFP