Paris: Restaurants in Paris may remain open, but under stricter restrictions, when the city is on high coronavirus alert to alarming COVID-19 infection figures, the prime minister announced Sunday.
However, the bars and cafes of Paris and its landscape seem to safely close the new measures, which will last at least 15 days.
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, and the police leader of the capital, Didier Lallement, will address the situations on Monday.
Health Minister Olivier Veran announced last week that only an improvement in COVID-19 infection rates can save you the “total closure” of the city’s cafes and bars.
France reported nearly 17,000 new cases of coronavirus on Saturday alone, the highest number since the country began widespread testing.
Figures from regional fitness firm ARS show that new cases of coronavirus above 250 are consistent with 100,000 inhabitants in Paris.
This threshold activates the maximum alert protocol, which has already affected the southern towns of Aix-en-Provence and Marseille and its surroundings, as well as the French territory of Guadeloupe.
Patients with coronavirus now occupy more than 30% of extensive care beds in the Paris region.
“There is no justification for denial,” Paris’ director of fitness Aurélien Rousseau said Sunday. “The numbers are who are and weigh a lot. “
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has stated that the final bars and cafes would be “difficult” for those involved.
“We are French, we like to drink, eat, live, smile and kiss,” LCI and Europe 1 broadcast on Sunday.
“But we also do it because other people need it,” he added.
BFM tv published a ballot on Sunday showing that 61% of the citizens of Paris and its suburbs were in favour of a complete closure of the bars, which lately can remain open until 10 p. m.
Mayor Hidalgo told the press this Sunday: “This is not an agreement reached, there are still paintings, we are still talking. “But he also admitted that the fitness scenario “is very serious. “
The government said it will primarily target institutions that “serve food with alcoholic beverages. “
Restaurants have recommended voluntary restrictions, such as recording the surface of their guests’ homes and restricting the number of others at the table.
Other primary French cities, such as Lille, Lyon, Grenoble and Toulouse, are also reaching the maximum alert threshold and measures for those in the capital may also be reserved for them.
The UMIH employers’ organization, which represents cafes, bars, hotels, restaurants, breweries and nightclubs, warned that around 33,000 institutions are at risk of bankruptcy due to virus restrictions, and up to 250,000 workers face unemployment.
“We are pleased by the restaurants (but) incredibly alarmed by the bars that will be closed for two weeks,” UMIH President franck Delvau told the AFP.
Most insurers would be willing to pay reimbursement for lost income, he added.
The government said it would take all mandatory precautions for a new state of emergency that would require a widespread blockade such as the tax at the height of the epidemic, from mid-March to mid-May.
More than 32,000 people died by COVID-19 in France and another 49 died on Saturday.
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