Emmanuel Macron plans to speak on Wednesday evening, after a new health defense council

Emmanuel Macron plans to speak from Wednesday evening March 31, according to information from the political service of franceinfo. He will do so according to the decisions that will be taken in the health defense council earlier in the day. “This would allow him to underline the consistency of his decisions since January”, says one in his entourage.

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Ten days after the first re-containment measures, the closure of schools will be on the menu of this health defense council. “If we don’t take any action, the risk is that the schools will close on their own”, observes a minister. Taking advantage of the holidays to close schools all over France, three or four weeks in total, is a working hypothesis.

“Emmanuel Macron’s red line is sorting out patients”, we underline at the highest summit of the State. In two separate stands at the JDD and at World, hospital doctors have spoken to alert on the specter of “sorting patients” at the door of intensive care units. “There is still room for maneuver”, however indicates one of the relatives of the Head of State, as “other transfers of patients or new deprogramming of operations”.

A new health protocol in schools came into effect on Monday. Now, a single case of Covid-19 is enough to close a class, against three previously. “We will not close [les écoles] as a last necessity “, repeated Thursday the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran.