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From Tuesday, October 6, Paris and the three departments of Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne will be considered “areas of maximum emergency alert for coronavirus” by the French government. The state of alert will last at least fifteen days and will lead to the closure of bars, but not restaurants, which may remain open, although with improved sanitary measures such as the registration of customer data and the reduction of people sitting at the same table . In high-alert areas, universities will also have to cut the number of students admitted to face-to-face lessons in half.
Four days ago, French Health Minister Olivier Véran warned that if the pandemic figures continued to deteriorate, the government “would have no choice but to put Paris and the inland suburbs on high alert.”
The number of people who have tested positive for the coronavirus in the last seven days is about 270 per 100,000, above the threshold of 250 set by the government. In the elderly, who are at higher risk, the figure is higher than 100. In Ile-de-France hospitals, more than 35 percent of intensive care places are occupied by COVID-19 patients.
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