French Prime Minister Francois Carstairs announced Thursday evening that 16 departments, including Paris, will be closed for four weeks to take stricter measures to contain the third wave of the impending outbreak. This is the third closure in France, involving nearly a third of the population, but primary and secondary schools will open as normal. 16 departmental closures will increase public spending on the fight against the Epidemic by 1.2 billion euros per week in France.
AFP reported that Castel said at a press conference that the spread of the Variant virus is accelerating and France is getting closer to the third wave of the epidemic. In order to contain the increasingly serious epidemic, we must take large-scale more severe new measures. Castet announced that the new 4-week restrictions will be implemented in 16 departments where the outbreak is severe, including 8 departments on the Ile-de-France, 5 departments in the Hauts-de-France region, Alpes-Maritimes and Seine-Maritimes and Eure. The population involved is 21 million, including 12 million in the greater Paris area. These measures have been in effect since 00:00 on Saturday.
The new restrictions include that people can leave their homes during the day, but with proof of travel and limited to 10 kilometers from Home; all residents of the above-mentioned 16 departments are prohibited from traveling across the region, except for work or special reasons, but schools remain open. Starting next Saturday, the curfew is adjusted from 18:00 to 19:00 across France. Closure of non-essential commercial activities and continued strengthening of telecommuting, the government will make every effort to complete vaccination of people over 75 years of age; France restarted AstraZeneca vaccination from Friday.
The French Ministry of health informed Thursday evening that 35,000 new cases were confirmed, the second day in a row that the number of new confirmed cases exceeded 30,000, and the number of patients in intensive care climbed again to 4,246, the highest number since the end of November last year.
French Economy Minister Le Maire said that the 16 departmental closures will increase public spending on the fight against the epidemic by 1.2 billion euros per week.
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