The government could become stricter in terms of health measures in Île-de-France. Spokesman Gabriel Attal “does not exclude” a closure of bars and restaurants at 11 pm in Paris, where the virus is actively circulating, as has been decided for Marseille and all of the Bouches-du-Rhône.
"This may obviously be the case with Paris in the coming days, nothing is excluded," Gabriel Attal said Wednesday during a press briefing after the Council of Ministers.
The government is working this week to reassure the French worried about a resurgence of the epidemic, by new health constraints, in particular from September 1 the obligation of the mask in companies and colleges and high schools.
"The circulation of the virus is important in the capital and in a number of departments in the inner suburbs. The prefects and elected officials are in constant contact to prepare possible new measures, ”he added.
Other regions are taking the step
The prefect of the Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur region announced on Tuesday the obligation to wear a mask throughout Marseille and the closure of bars and restaurants at 11:00 p.m. in the Bouches-du-Rhône.
These measures, which will come into effect on Wednesday at 11 p.m., were decided in the face of the sharp acceleration of the coronavirus epidemic in this department, with an incidence rate of 177 per 100,000 in France's second city and 131 out of 100,000 for the department, against about 33 per 100,000 on the national average.
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Prime Minister Jean Castex stressed Wednesday morning that the number of cases diagnosed had risen "in a few weeks from 1,000 cases per day to around 3,000" and that intensive care admissions "are progressing, but extremely slightly".