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The French capital, Paris, was declared a “maximum health alert zone” due to an increase in coronavirus cases and the occupancy rate of beds in ICUs in city hospitals.
For now there is no clarity regarding the restrictions that this measure, but media such as Le Figaro advance that they would involve the Closing of bars and restaurants will be able to serve diners but must comply with strict sanitary measures.
Also according to The world universities will be asked reduce the number of students admitted to classrooms simultaneously.
Tomorrow the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo with the police prefecture They will give a press conference where they will deliver in detail the measures that will begin to be applied from the Tuesday, October 6 and will last two weeks, although these could be lengthened.
In the last 24 hours they have been reported 12,565 new cases of coronavirus, a considerably lower figure compared to the almost 17 thousand new infections reported the previous day.
Days before the French Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, He had warned about the contagion situation in the country’s capital and had said that it was possible to apply this measure if new cases of coronavirus did not decrease substantially on Sunday.
The capital and its periphery have “exceeded three thresholds which correspond to the maximum alert zone, ”Véran said Thursday during a press conference.
If that trend continues, “we would have no choice but to put Paris and the suburbs on high alert as of Monday,” explained the Secretary of State.
So far only the city of Marseilles (southeast) and the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, were on high alert, which led to closing of bars and restaurants, and of public places such as museums and cinemas, unless strict security measures are applied, from the beginning of the week.
Besides Paris, five other cities –Lille, Lyon, Grenoble, Toulouse and Saint-Etienne – could also be put on high alert next week.
