The finding of the head of government is final. “For about two weeks, the epidemiological situation (…) has been evolving in the wrong direction”, said Jean Castex, Tuesday August 11, before detailing new measures to prevent a resumption of the epidemic difficult to control.
Nearly 1,400 additional Covid-19 contaminations have been recorded in the past twenty-four hours, for a total of 204,172 cases confirmed since the start of the epidemic, according to figures released on Tuesday at the end of the afternoon by the Public Health France agency.
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Paris, Marseille, Lille, Nice, Lyon… more and more cities require the wearing of masks in public spaces
After Paris, Marseille, Lille, Biarritz, Toulouse and Nice, the capital of the Gauls has announced Wednesday, on BFM Lyon, make the mask compulsory in certain neighborhoods. Details on the streets concerned will be given later today, following a meeting at the town hall. The same goes for Bordeaux, where the mayor, Pierre Humric, decided to impose the wearing of the mask in certain streets of the hyper-center.
Since the end of July, but especially since the beginning of August, municipal or prefectural decrees have been caught in hundreds of cities, small or large, to impose the wearing of the mask outside. It is thus obligatory to “Go out covered” in the city centers of Lille (North), Nice (Alpes-Maritimes), Tours (Indre-et-Loire), Biarritz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) and Annecy (Haute-Savoie), but also in highly visited places such as Le Mont-Saint-Michel (Manche), Locronan (Finistère) or Bréhat (Côtes-d’Armor). Since August 10, the mask is also mandatory in “Certain high-traffic areas” from Paris, mainly in the densest areas of the capital.
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Events of more than 5,000 people, incentives to wear masks, controls … the latest measures announced
The government has therefore decided on a new series of measures to prevent this “Was not like the others” does not lead to too marked a deterioration in the health situation.
The government has decided to extend by two months, until October 30, the ban on events bringing together more than 5,000 people, while maintaining the possibility of prefectural exemptions depending on the health protocols in place.
At the same time, the executive intends to strengthen the screening policy by improving access to tests for people with symptoms of the disease, through dedicated circuits, in order to obtain rapid results. “We will also need to strengthen measures to ensure the effectiveness of what is called the fortnight or isolation”, continued Jean Castex, who also announced an intensification of the actions of control and verbalization of the failures when they are noticed.
On businesses, the prime minister said he had asked the ministers of labor and the economy “To see how we can generalize the wearing of a mask as much as possible in the workplace”, recalling that they were “Governed by protocols which were most often negotiated branch by branch”. “No two workplaces are alike, that’s why the application of absolutely systematic measures is sometimes contrary to the desired effect”, he added.
Finally, explained the head of government, he is required of prefects and local elected officials d’“Extend as much as possible the obligation to wear a mask in public spaces”.
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The Paris Marathon canceled
The Paris Marathon, scheduled for November 15, has been canceled, announced Wednesday ASO (Amaury Sport Organization), the organizing company of the event.
The 42.195 km race, which passes each year in front of the emblematic places of the capital (start on the Champs-Elysées, Opera, Bastille, Notre-Dame, Eiffel Tower …), initially scheduled for April 5, had been postponed twice (on October 18 then on November 15) due to the health crisis.
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Without foreign tourists, attendance at Versailles “collapses”
Attendance at Versailles “Collapses” in the absence of foreign tourists, with only 10,000 visitors on average per day at the moment, three times less than usual, announced Wednesday Catherine Pégard, president of the public establishment of the Palace of Versailles. “Our visitors are almost exclusively French. Little by little we see foreigners, Germans, Dutch, a few Italians coming “said Mme Pegard on RTL radio. Usually, the castle is 80% visited by foreigners, she said.
“Financially, we do not find it at all”, she lamented, adding that the establishment, which reopened to the public on June 6, had “Lost 45 million euros” from containment.
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