The head of state spoke Thursday at the end of the evening from the Elysee Palace, at the end of a European summit by videoconference.
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The peak of the third wave is not yet in sight. Emmanuel Macron spoke, Thursday, March 25, of possible “new measures to be taken in the coming weeks” and “without taboo”, faced with the sharp rise in cases of Covid-19 and the hospital pressure they generate (more than 4,700 people in intensive care). “These coming weeks will be difficult, we will take all the necessary measures in due course and there is in my eyes no taboos”, he warned, at the end of a European videoconference council.
Thursday during the day, visiting Melun hospital (Seine-et-Marne), Jean Castex judged the situation “extremely worrying“because of the variant that appeared in Great Britain, especially in Ile-de-France, where the incidence rate is close to 600 per 100,000 and where 1,410 patients are in intensive care, 300 more than in the second wave.
Sign of a tense situation, the Prime Minister canceled a trip Friday morning in the Channel to the boarding schools of excellence which will be replaced by a new meeting with the prefects and directors general of the ARS of the 19 departments affected by the new restrictions.
Source site www.francetvinfo.fr
