Passers-by wear the mask in the streets of Paris, August 11, 2020. – A.Jocard/AFP
Paris and the Bouches-du-Rhône department are now classified as an active traffic zone for coronavirus, according to a decree published in the Official Journal on Friday August 14. This classification will allow the prefects concerned to take more restrictive measures.
With 2,669 new contaminations within 24 hours, the figures published Thursday by the Public Health Agency France (SPF) showed that
the progression of Covid-19 in France had reached its highest rate since the end of confinement.
Wearing a mask has been compulsory since Saturday in several districts of Marseille and since Monday in “areas with a high concentration of people” of the capital.
About twenty other departments in surveillance
The classification of the two agglomerations in active zone of the virus allows the prefects to prohibit the movement of people and vehicles, as well as access to means of collective transport in certain zones, specifies the law of July 9 organizing the exit of the state of health emergency.
Authorities may also order the temporary closure of one or more categories of establishments open to the public as well as
meeting places, Bars or restaurants in particular.
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