Visitors with a mask at the Louvre museum, July 18, 2020. – Lionel Urman / Sipa USA / SIPA
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From this Monday, “sales stores, shopping centers, administrations, banks and covered markets” are added to the list of places where the wearing of the mask was already planned to fight the Covid-19, details the General Directorate of Health. Meeting and performance halls, cinemas, restaurants, hotels, games rooms, educational establishments, holiday centers, libraries, places of worship, indoor sports establishments, museums, stations and airports were already affected. A fine of 135 euros is provided for breach of the obligation to wear a mask in all enclosed public places.
As of Monday, wearing a mask will be compulsory in enclosed spaces, as announced @JeanCastex. This concerns shops, establishments open to the public, covered markets, banks …
Barrier gestures and screening remain essential to effectively fight the virus.– Olivier Véran (@olivierveran) July 18, 2020
The 39-year-old man who had been taken into custody on Saturday in the investigation into the fire at the cathedral of Nantes, was released Sunday evening “without any prosecution”, we learned from the public prosecutor Pierre Sennès. The investigators therefore set out to explore new avenues to find the person (s) responsible.
Emmanuel Macron “punched the table” on Sunday at the European summit in Brussels, devoted to the economic recovery plan, to denounce the ill will of some of its counterparts. In its sights: the so-called “frugal” states (Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Austria), as well as Finland, very reserved on this plan. The summit entered its fourth day on Monday. It is scheduled to resume at 2 p.m.
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