After Paris, Marseille, Lille, Nice or even Annecy, Lyon will in turn impose the wearing of a compulsory mask in certain busy streets. A meeting will take place this Wednesday morning at the town hall to decide on the areas affected by this obligation.
"It's a decision that we will take in the morning", explained this Wednesday morning the Assistant to Health in the city of Lyon, Céline de Laurens, on the set of BFM Lyon. “We want to be in the anticipation. It is necessary to distinguish the circumstances of the health situation. The health situation in Lyon is not yet on the alert threshold. But the circumstances call for strong anticipation, ”she added.
In addition to the busy streets of the city, the deputy mayor also clarified that the quays of the Rhône and the quays of the Saône were "areas of strong vigilance on which we regularly look to see if measures need to be taken".
Extend the wearing of masks in open public places
During a visit Tuesday to the Montpellier University Hospital (Hérault), Prime Minister Jean Castex was very clear: "I will ask the prefects to extend as much as possible the obligation to wear a mask in open public places", he had indicated. “In 330 municipalities, this obligation has been enacted. We must go further, and this is the instruction issued to the prefects ”. The prefects can in fact make the wearing of a mask also compulsory in open public places, depending on the local situation.
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Earlier in the day, the Defense Council also decided to extend by two months, until October 30, the ban on gatherings of more than 5,000 people, while leaving the prefects the possibility of derogating from it. case by case.
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While the epidemic monitoring indicators show an intensification of the circulation of SARS-CoV-2 in the country, this turn of the screw is hailed as a necessary decision, by several specialists and doctors. According to the daily bulletin of the Directorate General of Health, 1,397 new cases of contamination were identified Tuesday evening in the last 24 hours and 191 new people were admitted to hospital for a Covid-19 infection. Figures on the rise. The test positivity rate also climbed to 2.1% between August 2 and 8.
