During a visit by Emmanuel Macron to a Social Security center in Créteil. – LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP / POOL
Emmanuel Macron will chair a meeting at 6 p.m. at the Elysee Palace on Thursday to examine the protocols for reopening places closed because of the Covid-19 crisis, the Presidency of the Republic announced on Tuesday. “Following the meetings led by the ministers with the actors of the various sectors concerned by the closing of establishments, it will be a question of studying the health protocols envisaged for the gradual reopening” of these places, she specified.
Prime Minister Jean Castex and ministers Olivier Véran (Health), Bruno Le Maire (Economy), Jean-Michel Blanquer (Education), Gérald Darmanin (Interior), Gabriel Attal (spokesperson), Frédérique Vidal ( Higher education), Elisabeth Borne (Work), Roselyne Bachelot (Culture), Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (Tourism), Clément Beaune (European Affairs) and Roxana Maracineanu (Sports).
Reopenings complex to implement
In his speech of March 31, Emmanuel Macron announced the reopening “with strict rules” from mid-May of terraces of bars and restaurants and certain places of culture closed since October 30. The start of the school year is scheduled for April 26 face-to-face in schools and remote for one more week in colleges and high schools. Linked to an improvement in the health situation, in particular thanks to vaccination, the reopening promises to be complex to implement with the maintenance of barrier gestures and protocols adapted to each type of activity.
A Senate fact-finding mission on Tuesday recommended a gradual restart of cultural places depending on the risk, with the authorization of the prefect in collaboration with local elected officials, even if the dates are not the same for all.