After a Covid record of 16,972 new instances on Saturday, Paris bars were ordered to close for two weeks from Tuesday, declaring the capital a “maximum alert zone” due to the escalation of the pandemic.
Health Minister Olivier Véran warned Thursday that Paris is moving in this direction unless the escalation of the Covid-19 crisis improves.
On the contrary, it continued to get worse.
According to Véran, Paris had already “crossed the 3 thresholds” of such an alert, which may simply mean radical restrictions such as “the general closure of bars” and other activities.
As the capital was ready for more closing measures over the weekend, many feared that Paris’ restaurants would also be forced to close, but were released.
Last week, bars and restaurants in the French capital were ordered to close at 10 p. m. under the new restrictions of the coronavirus. Anticipating much stricter restrictions, Parisian restaurateurs demonstrated in front of their restaurants on Friday and, hitting pots and pans, suggested the French government not to suppress them again, something they believe may charge them for their business.
To avoid the risk of closure, restaurants provide for Covid measures, which include restricting the number of tables, taking the temperature of staff and visitors, and separating all tables by at least one meter, or with Plexiglass. in the main visitor points for touch search, “similar to systems in position in Germany, Great Britain and elsewhere,” Reuters reports.
Restaurants “in all spaces on high alert or on high alert” must comply with the “enhanced fitness protocol”, le Monde reports. The same alert point applies to the 3 main suburbs of Paris: Hauts-de-Seine, Seine- Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne. In all these spaces, universities will also have to halve the number of fellows at any given time, according to Le Monde.
The restaurant protocol, which will be described in detail today, will allow the catering institutions of Aix-Marseille to reopen their doors.
Meanwhile, BFM TV has rightly predicted that bar closures at least “seem inevitable. “
After weeks of rising infection rates in France, Saturday’s record doubled through an unprecedented positive control rate of 7. 9% and 49 deaths in 24 hours.
For Ile-de-France, the number of new Covid instances consisting of 100,000 inhabitants has increased to 270, above the threshold of 250, and the number increases to 105 instances / 100,000 in the elderly. Third, 35% of Patients with Covid receive intensive care; the threshold is 30%.
Now, questions about new padlocks imaginable are again frequenting the French.
Faced with a continuous “deterioration” in the number of instances and deaths, and an “unprecedented positivity rate”, “the news is clearly on everyone’s mouth: is a new blockade (“reconfinition”) inevitable?”la Dépeche newspaper reports.
“Theoretically, this would be the most productive solution to stem the uptick in the epidemic,” he says. However, this situation rejected through government “because its socio-economic burden would be unsustainable for the country. “Covid-19’s leading French advisers, the National Scientific Council, is also not calling for a new blockade.
What it does in returning are more localized locking measures, something that is already in place, with bar closures and other restrictions on the maximum affected areas.
At this level of the epidemic, the Scientific Council does not propose option four (new strong and potentially restrictive measures) at the national level, but it cannot rule out its use in certain metropolises and, of course, sometimes additional degradation. “wrote on an official recommendation, made public on Friday.
The kind of thing has been observed in the last few days.
“Under these conditions, little more for the government than hardening, in the hope that, even if everything breaks, the moment when past measures have not been able to save it from inflating,” Le Monde writes. Will the measures to prevent the wave suffice?”
The government will think again in a few weeks, to see if additional restrictions are needed.
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I have 3 decades of experience as a journalist, foreign correspondent and travel writer-photographer. Working for print, virtual and radio media on 4 continents, I am also an experienced hotel journalist and writer for travel guides and cultural stories in Australia, France. , Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Borneo. Very on the road between my Parisian and Australian bases, I write for Forbes with a globetrotting attitude and a topicality in travel, culture, hospitality, art and architecture. My hobby is to capture the unique people, situations and occasions that I encounter along the way, whether in words or images. I have a BA in Professional Writing from the University of Canberra, an MA in European Journalism from Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg, and a Fellow of the Society of American Travel Writers: Love for my wild local island of Tasmania fuels my commitment to sustainable travel and conservation.