Hospital staff in front of a Mulhouse hospital – SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP
“In agreement with the mayor of Mulhouse”, the prefect of Haut-Rhin, Laurent Touvet, “established, taking into account the current health situation, a curfew on the town of Mulhouse as of this day at 9 pm”, indicates the prefecture in a press release.
This measure “leads to the closure of all shops, including food and home deliveries, during the curfew period” and prohibits on this time slot “any outing for shopping, physical activity, the needs of animals of company “.
However, journeys between home and work remain authorized, “in particular for carers, public service employees and employees who finish or start their work during the curfew”, “strictly necessary nocturnal business trips such as supplies food businesses ”, travel for health reasons and those related to compelling family reasons.
Other night curfews
The situation continued to worsen over the weekend in the Haut-Rhin, which became one of the main French foci of the coronavirus epidemic after a great evangelical gathering one week in February. Colmar and Mulhouse hospitals are faced with the saturation of their intensive care services.
Other French cities have taken nocturnal curfew orders in recent days, such as Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales), Nice (Alpes-Maritimes), Béziers (Hérault) and Charleville-Mézières (Ardennes). Faced with the scale of the epidemic, doctors on Sunday asked the Council of State for the establishment of a national curfew but were unsuccessful on this point.
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