France is accelerating on the compulsory mask in closed public places. Initially planned for August 1, the measure will finally be implemented a week earlier.
One week’s advanced measurement
Prime Minister Jean Castex confirmed it before the Senate: “I heard and understood that this deadline appeared late or raised some questions. The decree will therefore come into force next week. “
Already mandatory in transport, the museum or the cinema, the mask will now have to be worn in all public services – town halls, post offices, libraries, but also hotels, places of worship and especially shops.
This Parisian trader is delighted with this measure: _ “We had to do it from the start. The ideal would also be to make the mask mandatory in the street and everywhere. We must stop hiding our faces.” _
Some relaxation
The return to a semblance of normal life, after two months of confinement, combined with the arrival of summer have led in recent weeks to a certain relaxation, as this resident of the capital noted. _ “There are people who are a little fed up, who unconsciously free themselves. They no longer respect the barrier gestures when they are in line, they no longer wear the mask or so they wear it, but it is lowered.” _
Nearly 100 outbreaks
As of July 15, France recorded in the space of 24 hours, 416 new cases of contamination, 20 new deaths in hospital and 482 patients in intensive care against more than 7,000 at the peak of the epidemic.
The situation is particularly sensitive in the overseas departments of Guyana and Mayotte. Across France, nearly 100 more or less important epidemic foci are being investigated, notably in Gironde in Mayenne and in the Paris region.
“We are monitoring batteries of indicators – calls to an SOS doctor, the number of calls to the SAMU, the number of hospital admissions – and we are witnessing in some Parisian hospitals weak signals of epidemic recovery. is why I ask the French to remain particularly vigilant “, underlines Olivier Véran, the French Minister of Health.
Faced with the clusters, prefects did not wait for the government decree to introduce the wearing of the mandatory mask in enclosed public places. This is the case in the municipalities of Laval or Saint-Ouen.
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