Maria Laura Avignolo
10/14/2020 4:45 PM
Clarín.com
World
Updated 10/14/2020 4:45 PM
At least 19 million French people will have to stay for the next four weeks in
"night lockdown"
.
A curfew between nine at night until six in the morning in Paris and in 7 other cities of "maximum alert" to stop the exponential advance of the virus.
Paris, Lyon, Grenoble, Montpellier, Lille, Rouen, Aix-Marseille, are included and will last until December 1.
It will be launched between Saturday and Sunday.
President Emmanuel Macron announced it to the country in a report on TF1 given the growth of the coronavirus, especially in young people.
It will be at least six weeks, if Parliament authorizes the extension of two more weeks, which will force to change the habits of the cities, to
close restaurants and cinemas earlier
.
But they will get help from the state to do so so they don't go bankrupt.
For employers there will be 100 percent unemployment and for workers, 80 percent partial unemployment.
“We have not lost control.
We are in a situation that is worrisome
and that justifies that we are neither inactive nor in panic.
We have learned from the first wave ”, said the president.
"This virus is coming back.
We are now in what has been called the second wave, ”he announced to the country.
French President Emmanuel Macron during TV commercials.
AFP photo
Macron declared that “we are today in a phase where indeed we must act.
This virus is dangerous for everyone ”.
For the head of state,
the pressure on hospitals is very strong
and half of the patients are under 65 years of age.
There are at least 20,000 cases per day in France and today 226 are in intensive care.
“This is unsustainable pressure.
If we are to react, we must stop the virus.
Protecting others, sometimes ourselves, depends on who you talk to, "said Macron, who described the situation as" worrying. "
Its measure is similar to that adopted by Germany and Great Britain in the face of the rise of the virus.
But it did not stop the holidays,
nor did it declare total confinement or prevent the transfer from one region to another.
Macron decided that people continue working in all sectors.
For those who have emergencies, for example sanitary,
there will be authorizations during the curfew
.
But they cannot be more than six people gathered in a house.
“There is no ban on driving between 9pm and 6am.
There is a strict limitation for good reasons ”, explained the president.
But they are excluded from "having the party", or "going to the house of friends", all occasions where it is socially contaminated.
A fine of 135 euros will be applied to what we respect the curfew
, which can reach 1,600 euros if they repeat.
He proposes that people only telecommute three days a week because employees must socialize.
The next summer
"We will have this until the summer of 2021 at least," Macron admitted.
"It is difficult to be 20 years old in 2020,"
acknowledged the president, after calling for collective responsibility.
The president announced that the tests will be free and hopes that the French will not overuse them.
Detailed measures and authorizations will be reported on Thursday by Prime Minister Jean Castex.
The government does not want to repeat the experience of the first wave of April and
adopt early precautionary measures.
This balance of going to work, maintaining the economy, studying and curbing the virus is the difficult presidential equation.
The main problem is that hospitals have divided their beds: half is for Covid patients and the other half are dedicated to patients with other diseases (cancer, transplants, operations), which were forgotten in the middle of the crisis of the first wave of Covid.
The transports will not be rearranged
.
There will be no national rule on “teleworking”, which sometimes “isolates people”.
"Telecommuting in a vacation home is fun.
Teleworking, when the children are at home, becomes very hard.
You have to have common sense.
We need companies to work, companies to be open, teachers to go to class.
In an office where there is no access to the public, we are going to encourage the public to do two or three days of work a week.
That reduces the collective pressure, ”said the head of state.
A family looks at Emmanuel Macron's ads.
AFP photo
A "protective" president declared a curfew for Paris and seven other cities, in an attempt to stop the parties of young people,
today the strip most affected by infections and control the growth of the virus.
The life of the French changes again:
the entertainment will be like a children's matinee
.
At nine o'clock at night the restaurants that are still open, the cinemas and the supermarkets must close, after their large investments in the sanitary protocol.
The pleasure of life ends in Paris, at least until December 1.
For restaurants, culture, theaters, cinemas it's a massive hit.
“We are dead.
We have been in this story for seven months and we do not know what happens the next day.
What will happen at Christmas?
How will we pay the credits? ”Asked the maître d 'of the brasserie L'European in Gare de Lyon, after listening to the president.
The curfew is a measure with a heavy history in France.
It was applied in 1955 to prevent urban violence
and was voted to allow a state of emergency during the Algerian war and to prevent the movement of certain people, especially at night.
In 2020, the health emergency was reconsidered, in the hands of the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, of prescribing “any measure proportionate to the risks in progress and appropriate to the circumstances and the place, in order to prevent and limit threats possible on the health of the population ”.
Alert levels
Three levels are currently used in France
to decide the restrictions that apply in its territory: the alert, reinforced alert and maximum alert zones, as in Paris, Lille, St Etienne and Lyon, Grenoble, Toulouse and Montpellier.
Above it, there is only the state of health emergency, which was declared on March 23 in the middle of the pandemic and was prolonged until July 10, when summer arrived.
In Mayotte and Guyana, this status was maintained until September 18.
For the health emergency stage, which is the maximum status that can be declared in France, it is necessary to meet three criteria: the incidence rate on the global population must exceed 250 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
In the cases of 65 years it must be higher than 100. The last criterion is the occupancy rate of the intensive care beds for Cobid patients:
the rate must be higher than 60 percent
.
It may be the next step.
In the Ile de France,
44 percent of therapy beds are
currently
occupied
with Covid patients.
The incidence rate is 294.8 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. The positivity rate of the tests was established at 17 percent against 16.9 percent on Tuesday.
There are currently 2,712 patients hospitalized in Ille de France today and 5.
COVID 19 explodes between the 20 to 30 years post-vacation period
.
There are 800 positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants in this population group. According to the Ile de France Health Agency, the incidence rate among people over 65 years of age is higher than 100 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the period of 4 to October 10.
So the projections are disturbing.
Martin Hirsch, the general director of the Public Assistance and Hospitals of Paris,
warned about the risk of saturation
, according to the models published by the Pasteur Institute before the progression of the Virus.
If the Covid continues at this rate, between 800 to 1000 people with Covid will be able to find themselves in the Ile de France region in intensive care in a dozen days, around October 24, which would represent 70 to 90 percent of current capabilities.
Macron has not consulted Parliament to adopt these measures until now but will consult it to see if it can extend it until December 1.
"We are on the train to fully relearn to be a nation," assured the French president. "We are
a nation of caring citizens.
We will not be able to leave if each one does not play his part.
We will come out stronger and more united ”.
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