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The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, announced this Wednesday an attenuated confinement for the entire country, in an attempt to stop the spread of the pandemic, which has saturated hospitals in several regions.
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This measure will take effect “since Saturday night for four weeks“, he affirmed in a televised statement in which he extended to all France the type of confinement in which 19 departments of the country were already.
The measures in France include the closure of non-essential shops.
Among the measures is the closure of non-essential shops and the prohibition of traveling more than 10 kilometers. On the other hand, lThe schools and secondary institutes will close next MondayFor at least three weeks, Macron added in a televised speech.
France is struggling to try to stop the third wave of the pandemic, which has put health services, especially emergency services, at the limit of their capacity. To do this, the government will increase the number of intensive care beds up to 10,000 units, instead of 7,655 already used todayd, Macron said.
At the same time, the government wants to start vaccinating those over 60 as of April 16, and those over 50 as of May 15. The French President, down in polls and who faces presidential elections next year, admitted to having “made mistakes” in managing the crisis.
April, a decisive month
The month of April “will be decisive,” acknowledged Macron. If this effort is coupled with the acceleration of the vaccination campaign, “from mid-May we will reopen with strict rules, some cultural sites,” he said during the speech he gave this Wednesday.
“We will authorize the opening of terraces with conditions and we will prepare, between mid-May and early summer, a progressive reopening calendar for culture, sports, leisure, events and cafes and restaurants“fully, he assured.
We will authorize the opening of terraces with conditions and we will prepare, between mid-May and early summer
Covid figures in France
France registered 2,579 hospitalizations in the last 24 hours, of which 569 were in intensive care units, which brought the number of seriously ill patients to 5,072, a figure higher than the highest peak recorded in the second wave.
This Monday, the data of 4,974 patients in the ICU had already exceeded the 4,903 maximum that there were in the by the end of 2020, although at the top of the first wave, last spring, the maximum number of patients was around 7,000.
Those 569 daily admissions exceeded is also a record since the highest figure in the second wave, on November 4, was 540 hospitalizations in ICUs in one day.
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According to health authorities, the country has a total of 28,510 patients nationwide, and the death rate is 95,337, after 336 deaths in one day in hospitals and another 45 in nursing homes and dependency centers since last Friday.
Health also shared the vaccination data, according to which 8.2 million people have received at least one injection in Francito, which is equivalent to 15.7% of the adult populationwhile only 2.7 million have received the required two inoculations.
AFP AND EFE
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