Government spokesman Gabriel Attal recalled this Sunday on  LCI  that  the new anti-Covid 19 restrictions  were ”   announced for four weeks  .  It is not expected that they will go beyond the 4 weeks at this stage” even if “nothing should ever be excluded in principle for the future ”.  “ There is a timetable announced by the President of the Republic.  If this calendar has been announced, it is because we know, we believe, that everyone’s efforts will make it possible to keep it, ”he added.

Emmanuel Macron, who announced on Wednesday a turn of the screw in the measures already taken to curb the epidemic, including the closure for three to four weeks of schools , could speak again in front of the French “by the end of the month of April I think, ”added the spokesperson.

Positive signals in places

The government ”  begins to see signals which can make optimistic on the measures which had been put in place” in 16 then 19 departments – and are extended since Wednesday to all the metropolitan territory – “with the beginning of stabilization of the epidemic” , said Gabriel Attal. “All this encourages us to continue, to maintain our efforts,” he stressed.

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He indicated that there was “no quantified criterion which has been announced at this stage to lift the measures” but that the government would, in the coming weeks, look at “the dynamics of the epidemic”. “We have to get out of this exponential. We have an increasing circulation of the virus ”.

With vaccination  “the situation has changed”, he argued. “It clears the horizon to anticipate and to plan to remove a certain number of constraints”. He specified that “by the end of April”, the government wanted “to start a first campaign (of vaccination)  for certain teachers  , in particular [those] who are in contact with children with disabilities.”, That is to say 80,000 people , and “during the month of May, to be able to expand” to other professions “particularly exposed” to Covid-19