Everything indicates that the novel coronavirus is beginning to stabilize. In an important address to the nation, French President Macron presented a detailed, very progressive and still full of unknowns plan for the return to normality in France.
The president's announcement was made on Monday night. In his speech, Macron said that the lockdown would be extended until May 11 to combat the spread of the coronavirus.
This is the president's third solemn address to the nation since the pandemic hit France in March. Macron also clarified that from that date, schools will begin to open and the economy will start to function if the results are positive.
This speech by the president was more pedagogical than epic, a detailed guide to the next steps, an attempt to explain what the gradual exit from the lockdown will be like, which has already left at least 15,000 dead in this country and is leading to the biggest recession since 1945.
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Macron began speaking at 8:02 p.m. local time, with enough time to allow the French to go out onto their balconies to applaud health workers and those on the “front” of this “war,” as he called it on March 16 when he decreed the lockdown.
He clarified: “We will eventually win, but for months we will have to continue living with the virus,” Macron said. “Our nation is united, with a common goal.”
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