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00:18 At the opening of the Health Defense Council, the President of the Republic announced that the health situation in France was "more than delicate".
00:26 He also mentioned a "dramatic" situation in Guadeloupe and Martinique.
00:31 At the opening of the Health Defense Council on August 11, Emmanuel Macron made it known that the situation in France was "more than delicate" in the face of COVID-19.
00:41 "We have exceeded in the early weeks the 9,000 hospitalizations for COVID-19," he said in a video conference from the Fort de Brégançon, adding, "The bar of 1,600 patients in reanimation has also been crossed."
00:53 He also explained that "the health crisis is not behind us and that it will last for several more months."
01:00 According to him, this situation "imposes our mobilization."
01:04 He insisted on the need, according to him, for vaccination in order to avoid the circulation of the Delta variant.
01:10 According to him, this is the most effective way to fight the virus.
01:15 Vaccination campaigns in the school environment from the start.
01:19 He assured that the goal of the government was "the vaccination of all French people who can be vaccinated" and announced the implementation of vaccination campaigns in the school environment.
01:28 "We will also set up, as soon as the school year begins, in all school establishments large vaccination campaigns for high school students, high school students, students, it will therefore be possible to get vaccinated in the places of the classes," he said.
01:41 The President of the Republic also mentioned the "dramatic" situation in Guadeloupe and Martinique.
01:47 "The increase in contamination is a result of an explosion of serious forms," he said, clarifying "an emergency scenario is now before us."
01:56 Emmanuel Macron also highlighted the state of the concerned places in the Provençal-Côte d'Azur, Corsica and Occitanie regions.
02:04 He came back to the implementation of the health pass.
02:08 "If we measure the constraints, we had no other choice because that was where the closure of the country," he said, also addressing the managers of the places where the pass is requested.
02:17 "Let everyone remember that when there were no more business figures at all because of the epidemic, it was public money that allowed the people in charge of these places to be paid."
02:25 "It is therefore legitimate to ask for a share of responsibility."
02:29 Responding to some of his opponents, who accused him of setting up a "health dictatorship," he said that "never in our history has such a crisis been fought in such a democratic way," underlining that "institutions work."
02:43 The President of the Republic finally confirmed the implementation at the start of a vaccination recall campaign with a third dose for particularly vulnerable people over the age of 80.
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