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French health minister Olivier Véran and the Secretary of State for European Affairs, Clément Beaune, will today publish a press release written in French and German, aimed at explaining the current spread of coronavirus cases in the Grand-Est. To avoid any unilateral closure that would take the inhabitants of the region by surprise, including 50,000 border residents who cross the Rhine every day to go to work, the two members of Emmanuel Macron's government are considering an extremely rare initiative.