Just when you imagine it’s time to take a big windy walk on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, without a mask, Parisian officials climb the famous street to their mandatory masking sheet. This while Covid in the French capital reaches a new record, with Paris declared a high-risk zone.
“Since mid-July, all signs show that the virus is circulating more actively in the region: nearly 400 other people test positive every day in Covid-19,” says the mayor’s office.
With a record increase in coronavirus after the blockade that struck France, Paris joined several other French cities last Monday to make the mask mandatory in many places outside. During the first week, the rule was implemented in densely populated tourist spaces and local hideaways, from the banks of the Seine to Montmartre and the historic Marais.
Several major tourist sites were greatly saved. Many found paradoxical that masks were not needed on the world’s most famous avenue. The explanation of why the lack of tourists on the Champs-Elysées was given through officials this summer because of Covid. Another wonder of the omission is the esplanade of the Champ de Mars and the gardens around the Eiffel Tower.
Now it’s a thing of the past. The mask map is a duty is being expanded, with effect almost immediately: from 8 a.m. Saturday.
“With #PreventiveMeasures, we go to each other: from this Saturday the spaces of Paris are widened where it is mandatory to wear masks,” tweeted the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, on Friday night.
The measures were through the Paris City Council and the Paris police prefecture (within the Ministry of the Interior, at an emergency event rate in the capital).
The mask usage map now includes 40 key neighborhoods according to Le Monde. (Compare how you grew up in a week and see all the origin spaces and regulations here).
Champs-Elysées, Rue de Berri, Avenues Montaigne and the Georges V district to the Arc de Triomphe and Charles Place de Gaulle.
Quartier Gare Saint-Lazare: Rue Saint Lazare, Place Gabriel Peri, rue de Rome, Boulevard des Batignolles, Place de Clichy.
Paris City Centre: a vast domain that crosses district 1 to 4. It includes the boulevards of the Madeleine, the Capucines, the Italians; Montmartre boulevards and good news; Plos angelesce de los angeles République and Plos angelesce de los angeles Bastille; Boulevard des Filles du Calvaire and Boulevard Beaumarchais; Quai Henri IV, Quai du Louvre and Quai des Tuileries; and St. Louis Bridge and Pont Neuf.
Batignolles District in the district
The Champ de Mars: The total extends to the Military School. Also the adjacent Quai Branly, and the Trocadero Square opposite.
Other spaces can still be added, the city corridor warns, “depending on the evolution of the epidemic”. They will be updated on the map that you can download in PDF format.
Outside those areas, he adds, he is dressed in a mask “in all circumstances, whether outdoors or indoors.”
Mask rules: who wears a mask?
You want to be without a mask for a day? Take part in one of those day trips outdoors in the capital, but take your mask, so museums and decomposition shops start! Also, other people find it antisocial in those days, if you don’t use it.
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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 of travel guides and cultural histories in Australia, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Borneo. Deep 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 I encounter along the way, whether in words and images. I have a bachelor’s degree in professional writing from the University of Canberra, a master’s degree in European journalism from Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg and a member of the Society of Travel Writers of the United States. Love for my wild local island of Tasmania fuels my commitment to sustainable travel and conservation.