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On the day that 104 people died of covid-19 (the highest number in five months), Emmanuel Macron denies that the situation is out of control. But so that this does not happen, the most populated areas with the highest incidence rate of the virus will be subject to a curfew.
Since Saturday and for at least four weeks, the inhabitants of the Île-de-France region (which includes Paris) and the metropolitan areas of Grenoble, Lille, Rouen, Sain-Étienne, Lyon, Toulouse, Montpellier and Aix-Marseille . -Provence will see all the commercial establishments closed between 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. and the duty of each inhabitant to be at home.
Expected exceptions include travel to or from work or a health emergency.
In an interview with TF1 and France 2 at the Elysee Palace, Macron said that the country cannot sit still or panic.
The French head of state began by saying that the country is experiencing the “second wave” of the pandemic and recalled other examples in Europe, with more restrictive measures in Germany, Spain or the Netherlands.
Macron recalled that more than 30 thousand people died in France from covid-19, but stressed that it not only attacks the elderly, and with diseases such as diabetes, hypertension or obesity.
“It affects all people and ages”, and in certain cases it leaves marks such as people who have lost their sense of smell or who have had respiratory failure – a warning for the younger population: in the capital region the incidence rate in the range between 20 and 30 years is 800 per 100,000 inhabitants, when the maximum alert level that the authorities have established for each place is when the virus exceeds 250 cases per 100,000 people.
“We have 20,000 cases a day, 200 people a day who go to intensive care, it is an unsustainable pressure.”
“I hope that everyone is aware of the risks,” he said, recalling that the Police will monitor compliance with this exceptional measure and that the fines for those who do not comply with the collection range between 135 euros and 1500 euros in case of recidivism.
Regarding the national lockdown that lasted two months and today, Macron said that “today the virus is everywhere” and, on the other hand, “health professionals are exhausted”, but he believes that a new lockdown would be a “disproportionate measure. “.
Macron admits flaws
The French president, who time and again appealed to civil courtesy and responsibility, admitted that at the level of evidence the answer was not up to scratch. “We had too long delays because we didn’t have the organization to allow us to do it,” he said.
Same with StopCovid app: “It didn’t work.” The pandemic tracking app will have a successor called TousAntiCovid, to “better track and protect” and will be released on the 22nd.
