The essential :
- The United Kingdom forced, as of Saturday, travelers coming from France to a fortnight. This measure, which also concerns Monaco and Malta, as well as the Turks & Caicos Islands and Aruba, angered Paris.
- France has 2,846 coronavirus contaminations in 24 hours and 18 new deaths. "The indicators for monitoring the epidemic on the national territory continue to deteriorate," lamented the Directorate General of Health on Thursday.
- Faced with the rebound of the epidemic, several French cities impose the wearing of masks in the street.
»The events of this Friday August 14
7:30 am. In the United Kingdom, quarantine travelers returning from France. London now imposes a fourteen-day quarantine on travelers returning from France "because of the growing number of cases of Covid-19 across French territory", says the British government. The holidays of hundreds of thousands of people have been shaken by the decision, which also affects travelers from the Netherlands, Monaco and Malta. Paris threatened London with a "reciprocity measure".
7:20 a.m. Wearing a mask outdoors in Paris: the measures are toughening. The compulsory wearing of a protective mask, already in force in several places in the capital, will also be extended from this Saturday at 8 am to part of the Champs-Elysées and to the Louvre museum district in particular. In addition, gatherings of more than 10 people are prohibited in Paris if barrier gestures are not guaranteed.
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