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French Prime Minister Jean Castex did not rule out government quarantine in some regions to curb the coronavirus epidemic after a “strong second wave” in the country.
“The general quarantine must be avoided at all costs. This is also possible if we all agree,” the prime minister said on France Info on Monday. However, according to Jean Castex, curfew restrictions can be introduced at the local level.
“Nothing is out of the question when we look at the situation in the hospitals,” he said.
“We are in a second big and strong wave,” emphasized the prime minister, saying that the French during the summer holidays “thought too early that the virus was gone” and did not follow the precautions enough.
On Wednesday night, President Emmanuel Macron will again give a live television interview and is expected to announce new restrictions. After Marseille, Paris and the island of Guadeloupe abroad, restrictions on the highest alert levels based on coronavirus epidemic indicators came into force in Lyon, Grenoble, Saint-Etienne and Lille on Saturday, with the south Toulouse and Montpellier threatened on Tuesday. counts as one area.
In these cities, bars, sports facilities, gyms, discotheques and swimming pools have been closed, precautions in restaurants have been tightened, professional meetings, salons, fairs, congresses have been lost and the number of people present has been reduced by half. shopping malls and institutions of higher education. .
The highest alert level comes into effect when the number of infected people per 100,000 inhabitants reaches 250 and exceeds 100 in the age group over 65, and at least 30 percent of intensive care units have coronavirus patients.
The national record for the number of cases per day has been rising week by week since testing became massive and free, surpassing 1 million per week. More than 16,000 new infections were recorded on Sunday, but the daily number of cases exceeded 20,000 on Friday and nearly 27,000 on Saturday.
The number of people requiring hospital treatment, including intensive care, is increasing, but at a slower rate than the number of cases: there are currently almost 8,000 people in the hospital (5,000 admissions in the last week), of which 1,483 are in intensive care there was an example.
At the peak of the first wave of the epidemic in April, more than 7,200 people were connected to a ventilator, a number that dropped to 400 in July and then rose again since the end of August. Experts say the second wave will not be as high as the first, but strong seizures are still expected in hospitals for the next two to three weeks.
(MTI)
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