Paris: Every summer, a giant component of the walkway along the Seine in central Paris is transformed into a transient “beach” with sun loungers, emerging beach bars and children’s play areas. This year, “Paris Beach” presented Parisians with a quiet city break, but the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic never goes away.
The sun loungers are more separate, there is social distance in the bars and there is something completely new: a free COVID-19 centre without appointment.
Every afternoon this month, about two hundred more people were covered, at least a metre aside, to go through the swab test for an active infection and a finger puncture test to find antibodies that indicate a past infection. They get the effects of antibody control in situ in just 10 minutes, while swab effects are obtained online or over the phone in a few days.
“I’m jogging on the docks, so when I saw this and saw how simple it was to do a checkup, I made a sign,” a Parisian named Alexis told CBS News. He and his friend Pauline go to a wedding in two weeks and felt that a check would be the culprit.
“There will be a lot of people, so we sought to make sure we were safe,” he said.
Pauline is willing to do the tests: “Someone spat at me while sitting on the terrace of a café, because I don’t give her a cigarette,” she said, still visibly surprised by the incident.
Although they were given the effects of the antibody test, they were visibly relieved and lifted their thumbs up: “It’s negative!”
Originally from North Carolina, Allyson is now a schoolteacher in Paris. He repainted the following week, and said he wanted to make sure he didn’t take the virus with her.
“This is the moment I took a check, because my nephew went to a party where there were other people who tested positive for COVID, so they checked me again to be sure,” he said. A colleague told him about the Paris Plage control site.
“I wanted to get tested, but it’s complicated with clinics, because there are so many people. The amazing thing here is that, for example, if you don’t already have your Social Security number or papers in order, it doesn’t matter. Array You can be a tourist and try to be loose here as well.”
Allyson said she was “absolutely” grateful to be in France the pandemic, rather than in her home country.
“My center is full of pride and gratitude towards this city and this country and the way they care for it. I’m so pleased to be here,” he said, his voice broken by emotion. “That’s how it’s done.”
“It’s easy. I don’t want to be French, I don’t want to be rich, I don’t want to be famous,” she says. “All I have to be here is to take an interest and protect my community. It’s as undeniable as it can be and it is.”
The increase in test campaigns in the country partly explains the increase in the number of new instances in France, as in many other European countries. But that’s not the only reason.
More circle of family members and social gatherings from the summer holiday era have been blamed for much of the spread here. Professional contact, which has more with the rest of antivirus measures and the return to paintings of some people, is also considered a primary factor, representing almost part of the new French clusters.
Prime Minister Jean Castex said Thursday that people between the ages of 15 and 40 are the main age organization that spreads the virus, unknowingly. He said the 20- to 30-year-old organization had the highest positive verification rate, at 6%, well above the existing national average of 3.8%.
This week, 6111 new instances were recorded in a 24-hour era (Wednesday through Thursday), a record since the end of the blocking restrictions on May 11.
But the Prime Minister also noted that most of the new cases were less severe than in the first few weeks of the epidemic in France, with a slight increase in the number of hospitalizations.
A total of 30581 more people died of COVID-19 in France on Friday, and the country showed nearly 300,000 positive tests, according to knowledge compiled through Johns Hopkins University.
Paris is now one of the most endangered spaces in France, the Prime Minister confirmed, giving the local government the strength to reintroduce even more restrictions to curb the spread.
On Friday, the mask was mandatory outdoors throughout Paris. Only cyclists and runners were exempt from the rule. Masks should also be worn in workplaces and schools in the capital, and anyone un dressed in a mask will likely be fined $150.