Macron announces night curfew in Paris and other cities for 4 weeks



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Source: Dubai – Arabia.net

French President Emmanuel Macron announced the imposition of night curfews in several of the main French cities, led by Paris, Marseille and Toulouse.

On Wednesday night, he said his country will impose a nightly curfew, starting Saturday (between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.) in several major cities, including Paris, to cope with the second wave. epidemic.

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He said in a televised interview: “The curfew will last four weeks, and we will go to Parliament to extend it until December 1. Six weeks is the period that seems useful to us.”

The French government approved this Wednesday by decree the state of health emergency, which constitutes a legal framework for some restrictions that will be imposed from midnight on October 17, and that will cover the entire national territory in the face of the escalation of the epidemic crisis of the Covid-19.

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The Cabinet minutes indicated that the worsening of the crisis “justifies the declaration of a state of health emergency in order to take measures that are precisely adapted to health risks and are adapted to the circumstances of time and place.

French authorities previously lifted the state of health emergency on July 10.

France has recorded more than 32,000 deaths from infection with the emerging coronavirus since the beginning of the crisis.



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