“the white plan will probably be national within a few days”, affirms Olivier Véran

Seven regions have already triggered the white plan in the face of the spread of Covid-19. He will be “moreover probably national within a few days“, affirmed Olivier Véran, guest of “4 Vérités” on France 2, Thursday December 9th. the Minister of Solidarity and Health explained: “Each region, one after another, triggers [le plan blanc], which at the same time makes it possible to mobilize more caregivers, more private sectors.”

On the movement of patients with Covid-19, Olivier Véran considered that he was “difficult to transfer patients from one region to another since, unlike what happened during the first wave, the epidemic does not particularly affect one region, it is national, all territories are affected“.
If the minister advanced “slower epidemic growth“, he admitted that France had”exceeded the record number of diagnoses over 24 hours: 72,000 per date of collection“.

“We had not known this since the start of the pandemic“, he added, before stressing that the implementation of new restrictive measures was not topical:”We do not need to impose restrictions since the French know how to protect themselves from the virus“Olivier Véran finally put the emphasis on vaccination and the booster dose, and even announced that he had signed a decree”which will authorize and encourage pharmacists who can and who wish to do so to open every Sunday without limitation, during the month of December and the month of January“.