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French President Emmanuel Macron said in a televised speech that the rise in Covid-19 incidence rates and in Covid hospitalisation data was alarming and called on all citizens to get vaccinated as soon as possible.
With France now Europe’s latest virus danger zone, Macron on Wednesday ordered temporary school closures nationwide and new travel restrictions. But he resisted calls for a strict lockdown, instead sticking broadly to his strategy, a “third way” between freedom and confinement meant to keep both infections and a restless populace under control until mass vaccinations take over. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Commentator Douglas Herbert tells us more.
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Dr. Andrew Smith, Senior Lecturer and Historian of modern France, joins France 24 to offer analysis of French President Emmanuel Macron's vaccination strategy and the ensuing political fallout. Macron is coming under heavy criticism from his political rivals for being "undignified" and "divisive." All the while, polls show "Macron remaining steady in terms of his overall popularity." Dr. Smith does see the logic in Macron's provocative discourse "to dominate the news agenda" as well as "shifting the burden of all this red tape and bureaucracy and Covid checking onto the people that aren't taking action."
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