Unlike Austria, the presidential majority “does not want” a re-containment of French people not vaccinated against the coronavirus, even if “all the hypotheses are on the table”, indicated the boss of LREM deputies, Christophe Castaner, this Monday.
“We do not wish it, and we must do everything to prevent that we need to worsen the means of protection of the French”, underlined Monday the president of the LREM group in the National Assembly on France 2 where he was questioned on this reconfinement of part of the Austrian population.
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“A dozen European countries are experiencing extremely strong tension on this subject with an epidemic resumption, and France is not immune to a new wave,” he added. Could there therefore be a new confinement in France in the long term, a hypothesis that remains relevant according to government spokesman Gabriel Attal?
“The objective, and the method we have used, is that of vaccination and booster”, underlined Christophe Castaner, specifying that “620,000 appointments” have been made in this direction since the last speech of Emmanuel Macron in early November.
Containment for the unvaccinated in Austria
But “all the hypotheses are on the table because we are facing a virus which surprises us and can still surprise us”, he recalled.
Austria has been confining since Monday people who have not been vaccinated or who have not recently contracted Covid-19, a first in the EU which aims to stem the record number of new cases. About 65% of the population has a full vaccination schedule in Austria, a figure slightly lower than the European average of 67% and far from countries like France (75%).