PARIS, KOMPAS.com – The traffic around Paris is natural congestion severe hours before lockdown second national enforced throughout France to press the case Covid-19.
Launch BBC on Friday (10/30/2020), a cumulative 700 kilometers of congestion occurred in the Ile-de-France region on Thursday evening local time, according to local media reports.
Step lockdown entered into force at midnight on Friday (23:00 GMT) to tackle the growing Covid-19 infection.
Residents have been ordered to stay at home, except for club work or medical reasons.
Presiden Emmanuel Macron said the country risks “being overwhelmed by a second wave (Covid-19) which will no doubt be more difficult than the first wave”.
Daily Covid-19 deaths in France are at their highest level since April. On Thursday (29/10/2020), the authorities reported 47,637 new cases and 250 new deaths.
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French media reports that many Parisians have left the city and their generally cramped apartments to spend time in the countryside.
Anna, 24, told the Le Figaro newspaper that she had left her family’s Paris apartment to go to their second home in Bernay in northern France.
He said time spent lockdown first in Paris that made it “psychologically difficult”. However, he says at Bernay with “the air is cleaner, we can breathe, we feel free”.
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Heavier than usual traffic was also reported around the major cities of Lyon and Bordeaux, hours before lockdown enforced.
Congestion traffic is reminiscent of the urban exodus that took place in the approaching March lockdown the first very strict national in France. At that time, some residents of other parts of France became hostile to Parisians who had fled the capital.
“We are asking people to stay at home and Parisians to stay in Paris. You can understand very well that if 4,000 people from Paris invade (to other regions) and a third of them become infected (Covid-19) without knowing it, there is clearly a risk of spreading with quickly, “wrote one commentator in the local paper, South West.
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However, during the first Covid-19 wave, certain regions of France, particularly Paris and the northeast were severely affected lockdown enforced, while other regions have relatively few cases.
This time, officials say corona virus spread rapidly throughout the country.
Meanwhile, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that Brussels has set aside 200 million euros (IDR 3.4 trillion) to transfer Covid-19 patients from the worst-affected member countries to another country with spare hospital beds.
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He also called on EU countries to collect their coronavirus data, and urged them not to close borders to each other.
However, he said that “we are not encouraging travel now”, and that people in Europe should only embark on trips to other states, if they need to.
During a video call with EU leaders, Von der Leyen also said that their work must now start with preparing the infrastructure for a mass vaccination program, to be ready when a vaccine is approved.
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