French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot was admitted to hospital after hiring Covid-19, her spokeswoman told CNN on Wednesday, the government’s second minister hospitalized with the virus this week. The 74-year-old woman had received her first dose of vaccine on March 17.
Labor Minister Élisabeth Borne, 59, was hospitalized on Monday in Covid-19 and discharged on Wednesday, according to a ministry press release.
“I’m relieved,” he tweeted to Borne as he left the hospital. He tested positive for the virus on March 1.
Covid confinement: France is in the midst of a third wave of coronaviruses, with new blockade restrictions implemented in 16 areas last Friday.
Non-essential businesses have been closed in the most affected areas of France, where they have been banned from going more than 10km from home or traveling between regions without a valid reason.
The new measures are less restrictive than those imposed in March and November last year, Prime Minister Jean Castex acknowledged when he announced them last week.
“It simply came to our notice then. The confusion over the weekend has provoked more mistrust, “Jean-François Timsit, head of the ICU at Bichat Hospital in Paris, told France Inter radio on Wednesday. who criticized the complicated nature of the restrictions.
“We should have slowed down sooner,” he added in the interview.
Recalling that now positive cases of Covid-19 could require hospitalization in the coming weeks, Timsit said, “Next month will be hellish.”
“We have several difficult weeks ahead,” French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told BFMTV on Wednesday morning: “Covid is taking a kind of expansion again, it’s very worrying.”
Easter Restrictions: The minister said in the interview that there will be no reduction in restrictions for the Easter weekend, although church services will be allowed to move out of the night curfew. He also encouraged the French public “not to meet the next weekends “.
“We need to limit them,” the minister said of the Easter celebrations. “They must remain within the strict family intimacy of the house, the apartment and we must not receive friends, family or travel.”