Overseas Minister Annick Girardin announced in a tweet that the territories responsible for public health will be consulted for these measures, the application of which the Head of State had announced in Overseas as in France from Tuesday.
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Posted on March 16, 2020 at 11:41 am, updated on March 17, 2020 at 1:47 p.m.
The President of the Republic made this clear on Monday during his speech. The travel restriction, limited to “necessary journeys”, and the ban on gatherings outside the family home for at least two weeks from Tuesday noon will also apply in Overseas.
Information confirmed, then clarified by the Minister of Overseas Annick Girardin in a series of tweets. Polynesia, like New Caledonia, remain many cases apart.
All the measures announced by @EmmanuelMacron will apply overseas. The prefects will make them applicable tomorrow at noon at the time of each of the territories. The overseas are an integral part of the nation. Complying with these guidelines is a matter of national unity.
– Annick Girardin (@AnnickGirardin) March 16, 2020
The territories responsible for public health, French Polynesia and New Caledonia, will be consulted for the implementation of the measures.
– Annick Girardin (@AnnickGirardin) March 16, 2020
The High Commissioner of the Republic must speak this Monday at 12:30 p.m. to specify the methods of application of these measures in Polynesia. A press point of the Presidency of the Country, initially scheduled at 11:00, had been postponed before that.
The “containment measures” taken by the government are those “that are necessary” to “protect the French” in the face of the epidemic caused by the new coronavirus, said French Minister of Health Olivier Véran on Monday, in stride of Emmanuel Macron’s speech.
No more than 5 contacts per day
“Do not get in touch with more than five people a day. Every avoidable contact can be a life saved,” he wrote in a message on Twitter as President Macron announced a severe travel restriction on the population for at least two weeks.
The Minister of Health explicitly mentioned “containment measures” in his message, a term of “containment” that the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron for his part did not use during his television intervention.
Emmanuel Macron had announced that “travel will be greatly reduced for at least 15 days” from Tuesday at noon to “limit contact as much as possible” and fight against the spread of the coronavirus.
Travel limited to the maximum
It will no longer be possible to “find friends or go to the park” and “only must remain absolutely necessary transport”, “to get treatment”, do shopping or “go to work when remote work is not not possible “, detailed the Head of State, specifying that” any violation of these rules will be penalized “.
“It is little five people, if you went to a food race, that means that you do nothing else”, for his part stressed on TF1 the Minister Olivier Véran.
“It means that you stay at home except when you are really forced to go out or to get something to eat or for health reasons for example, or to go to work when telework cannot be set up and that your job is essential, “he added.
“These contact reductions are something we ask of the French, it is the effective means of fighting against an epidemic which is progressing in our country and in the neighboring countries”, according to Mr. Véran.
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