But, he added: “we must slow down the virus.”Full details on school closures and the help parents are entitled to HERE. The measures were met with a mixture of resignation and anger, despite Macron’s suggestion that France could begin envisioning a return to normal life by mid-May. Antoine Flahault, an epidemiologist and Director of the Geneva Institute for Global Health, told The Local:“It was important to take strong measures quickly in France. That Macron himself was the one making the announcement “adds some weight” to the importance of the message, Crépey said. “The goal is to suppress this wave of the epidemic… so that it’s as small as possible,” he told France Inter radio.

Source: The Local April 01, 2021 09:20 UTC