A few fleeting rallies, online demonstrations and little thrush, the French spent their May 1 confined, forced coronavirus, while the authorities have corrected the maps prepared for deconfinement.
To celebrate International Workers’ Day, a few quick rallies were held in Paris, Orléans, Toulouse, Grenoble, but the initiatives of unions and associations have focused on social networks
President Emmanuel Macron hailed “the spirit of May Day”. “It is thanks to the work, celebrated today, that the Nation is holding,” he said, ensuring that the French will find “May 1 happy”.
A speech welcomed by the unions, the number one of the CFDT Laurent Berger, denouncing the “only budgetary logic” and his CGT counterpart Philippe Martinez calling on the executive to “take action”.
In the crosshairs, health personnel, employees in commerce, the food industry, paramedical, social, maintenance, public service agents, on the front line in the fight against the coronavirus.
Masked in front of the statue of Joan of Arc for May 1 of the RN, Marine Le Pen estimated that “today everyone should wear a mask in public space”.
Masks whose price will be capped at 95 euro cents per unit for the surgical paper version and for single use but not for the fabric version, announced the Secretary of State to the Minister of Economy Agnès Pannier -Runacher.
From Monday, the masks will be available in supermarkets and the importance of their stocks outraged health professionals who deplored “an escalation of indecency” in a scathing text.
Charges deemed “defamatory” by distributors who assure that “there are no hidden stocks”.
“At some point you have to deconfine, which you deconfine tomorrow or in a month, you take a small risk,” said Yazdan Yazdanpanah, head of the infectious diseases department at Bichat hospital, on RTL.
“It is very important that a certain number of prerequisites, tests, masks, distancing, have been identified”, “the risk if we are ready, if we have prerequisites, is low,” said the doctor. -even victim of the virus.
He also regretted in Le Monde the lack of cooperation between European states for a large clinical trial planned on 3,200 patients. “Each country has worked for it and it is very difficult to cooperate,” he said.
The coronavirus has killed 24,594 people since March 1, including 218 in the past 24 hours. The tension in the intensive care unit has eased a little further with 141 fewer people, argued the Director General of Health, Jérôme Salomon.
He presented new provisional cards for deconfinement, after the first versions unveiled Thursday by the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, which contained counting errors.
These provisional maps classify departments in red, orange and green according to the state of the epidemic and resuscitation services.
Changes have taken place for nine departments: Aisne, Calvados, Cher, Dordogne, Haute-Corse, Nièvre, Lot, Oise and Tarn.
“If there are bugs on the classification it is because the system remains too centralized”, lamented on franceinfo François Sauvadet, president of the Côte-d’Or, department classified red in particular because it welcomes patients from departments neighbors.
In the summary map, around a third of the departments are classified red, with no surprise, the whole of Ile-de-France and the northeast quarter of the country, the two main areas affected. The rest of the country is divided between orange and green.
The map will be updated daily until May 7 where only two categories will remain, green and red, which will determine the level of relaxation of the restrictions from the deconfinement scheduled for May 11.
“The objective is to go towards the two-color”, red and green, recalled Mr. Salomon.
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