we now want to bring in a senior lecturer in if they on infectious diseases at the university of montpellier. what announcement do you want to hear from the prime minister as france eases the lockdown in place? that after theis , we will have trouble to see if the new measures that are deployed to control the epidemic will bebe enough and efficient e enough. we have to wait until the end of may to see the indicator that we pay attentntion to, the reductin -- of rep reduction number -- reproduction number toto be undr 1. and then the government will have to change the strategy. >> germany has eased its lockdown measures in place. already today, the reproduction rate is 1. from what i understand, the health services in germany need it to be below 1 f for them to really have a handle on the situation, so it is inevitable that number will rise once things start to move, peoplele t back on public transport, etc. >> yes. inevitably, the reproduction threshold isne very important, because if the rep reduction number is greater than 1, then the epidemic can go out of control -- the rep reduction num