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Germany, after France and Spain, also runs for cover and tightens its belt in the face of the advance of coronavirus cases. Given the “sometimes very steep” growth curve in some areas of Germany, “contact restrictions will be introduced in areas where new infections exceed 50 new infections per 1000 inhabitants both in public and in private”: Chancellor Angela announced Merkel. “We know that the data reflects the events of the previous ten days and therefore if we introduce measures we have to wait ten days to see if the dynamics of the epidemic has stopped or decreased and only then will we see if other measures are necessary,” he added .
FRANCE – “The situation is worrying, but we have not lost control, do not panic.” Before the advance of the second wave of coronavirus in France, Emmanuel Macron on live TV announces a nightly curfew between 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. in Paris and in other cities where the contagion rate increases day by day, for at least 4 weeks that will almost certainly turn into 6. The president is serious and concerned but also determined not to overload the French with anxiety, stressing that “a confinement would have been disproportionate. “
Lille, Grenoble, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille, Montpellier, Rouen, Toulouse and Saint-Etienne, the cities on “maximum health alert”, will follow the fate of Paris, announced Macron, who was careful to underline the need of a “common sense” that should guide the citizens in this phase that “will last at least until the summer of 2021”.
“From 20,000 infections we must go down to 3-5,000” per day, he said, without hiding the weight and severity of the increase in Covid patients in intensive care. And showing off his confidence, he concluded his speech – after the greetings of the two journalists who interviewed him – taking the floor again to reassure: “We will.” But Macron had just returned from the toughest day, with the government divided between “hard and fast” health needs – Health Minister Olivier Véran at the helm – and at least 4 ministers strongly opposing the curfew. in the name of safeguarding the economy. cities, merchants and the equality between those who can still survive by going to second homes in the country for 6 weeks, thanks to teleworking, and those who will be forced to stay in the city without going out at night for a month and a half. “There will be no transport restrictions,” the president said, because “there will be people who will continue to work at night, or in the afternoon, or at dawn.”
And then: “We have not decided to reduce travel between regions”, a green light for those who have already organized the departure from Friday for the 15 days of the All Saints school holidays. “Asking people to stay locked up in an apartment and not go to a vacation spot – he stressed – would be disproportionate.”
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