The “long distance race which started a month and a half ago […] is not yet finished”, warned the Minister of Health Olivier Véran. The government decided on Saturday, during a Council of Ministers which lasted more than two hours, to extend for two months the state of health emergency which has framed in France, since March 24, the fight against the pandemic of coronavirus. "Learning to live with the virus is the challenge for the coming months," said Interior Minister Christophe Castaner.
Two more months of state of emergency
Came into force on March 24, the state of health emergency is extended, because its lifting at the scheduled date, May 23, would have been "premature". The text contains seven articles, it aims to "consolidate the legal framework" and "expand" to "integrate the issues of deconfinement", which must begin on May 11, said the Minister of Health Olivier Véran.
The bill is expected to be discussed by senators on Monday afternoon and then by members of the House, possibly Tuesday.
Forty for patients who (r) enter France
People entering France, whether in mainland France, Corsica or an overseas territory, will, if they are contaminated, be placed in isolation, after a doctor has found the infection and on the proposal of the Director General of the Regional Health Agency. They can challenge this placement in quarantine before the liberty and detention judge, who will rule within 72 days. The duration of this quarantine may not exceed fifteen days, "unless the person concerned consents or in agreement with the judge of liberties and detention", continues the text which specifies that the maximum duration of this confinement will be one month .
For people tested positive and already on the territory, compulsory quarantine was not retained. "We trust the French spirit of responsibility," said Olivier Véran.
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- Élysée (@Elysee) May 2, 2020It also relates to the implementation of an "information system" concerning sick people and their entourage for a maximum of one year.
More criminal agents
From May 11, free movement, without exit certificate, will again become the rule. In parallel, the possibility of verbalizing will be extended, in particular to enforce the wearing of masks in public transport, and the respect of barrier gestures in shops that have reopened. "The security assistants, the voluntary assistant gendarmes, the reservists of the police and the national gendarmerie as well as, it is important, the security agents sworn in transport but also the agents of the services of the authority of the competition for businesses will be able to observe the non-compliance with the rules of health emergency and sanction it, ”detailed Christophe Castaner.
"If certain controls will still be necessary, we are counting on the civic spirit of the French and the spirit of responsibility," continued the minister, insisting that "this civic spirit and this spirit of responsibility" had made confinement "possible".