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The Paris authorities will thus impose a maximum level of health alert for the capital and the Paris region.
The new measures will take effect earlier this week, following the increase in the number of people infected by the new coronavirus, according to an announcement made on Sunday by the office of Prime Minister Jean Castex, Reuters reports, taken over by Agerpres.
The highest level of alert implies the imposition of additional restrictive measures for public places, regulations that will be detailed on Monday during a press conference, French Prime Minister Jean Castex also announced.
The new restrictive measures will be implemented starting Tuesday and will be in effect for 15 days.
How serious is the situation
Early Thursday, French Health Minister Olivier Véran announced that Paris and its suburbs could face additional restrictions if the epidemic progresses there. Such a classification “will mean that the residents of Paris and the suburbs will temporarily reduce their social interactions drastically, in any case more than they already do: fewer family vacations, fewer parties, total closure of bars,” said Véran.
The minister has also observed a “deterioration” of the situation in “five metropolises, Lille, Lyon, Grenoble, Toulouse and Saint-Etienne”, where “the evolution of the last days continues to be very worrying”. The death toll was 32,000 in France on Thursday.
“If the measures (restrictions already imposed) do not produce enough effect, we could be determined to place them in areas of maximum alert next week,” warned Minister Olivier Véran.
France, also affected by floods
The announcement of the new measures comes at a time when France is facing another major problem, putting enormous pressure on the authorities, catastrophic floods. And this later, in several areas of France, hundreds of rescuers supported by the military and military helicopters were searching on Sunday for at least 18 people missing after the flood.
Prime Minister Jean Castex has expressed concern that the meteorological balance will be much worse than what can be assessed so far and that the government is preparing to declare a state of natural disaster in the disaster area. The material damage is enormous, at least 12 communes are totally destroyed, the inhabitants are evacuated and sheltered. 50 roads and bridges were flooded, leaving dozens of states still isolated.
