French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday that a curfew would be announced from 21:00 to 6:00 in Paris, Marseille and seven other cities with the highest prevalence of Covid-19.
The curfew will take effect starting on Saturday, Macron said in a televised address.
“We have not lost control,” stressed the owner of the Elysee Palace, while acknowledging that “the situation is worrying” and that the health care system has little room for congestion as the infection spreads across the country and medical staff are already exhausted after the first wave of the pandemic.
At a meeting on Wednesday, the French government decided to declare a state of emergency again.
The state of emergency, which will allow the implementation of measures that will be “proportionate to the health threat”, will take effect from Saturday, according to the minutes of the government meeting.
The government aims to reduce the number of new infections registered per day from the current 20,000 to three or four thousand, as “this makes it manageable,” Macron said.
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