After Germany, Switzerland's turn to place French regions in the “red zone”.
Nine of them have been placed at high risk due to the high number of cases of infections with the new coronavirus, the government announced on Friday.
Switzerland can classify a country or a region as "at risk" and impose a quarantine of 10 days on those who return if the area in question has at least 60 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over the last fourteen days.
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The nine regions are Center-Val de Loire, Corsica, Hauts-de-France, Ile-de-France, Normandy, New Aquitaine, Occitanie, Pays de la Loire, and Provence- Alpes-Côte d'Azur, lists the newspaper Tages Anzeiger, specifying that the measure would come into force on Monday.
However, border areas are not affected.
"A situation to be taken seriously"
“We have a number of new infections in France which already exceeds today what there was in March-April.
It is a situation to be taken seriously ", declared the Minister of Health, Alain Berset, in a press conference, affirming to want" to avoid any propagation in our country ".
In France, the authorities calculate this incidence rate over seven days.
It is above the alert threshold set at 50 in seven of the thirteen regions of the country, according to the latest data from Public Health France.
Switzerland, rather spared at the start of the epidemic, is also experiencing a rebound in the number of new daily cases.
In his twenties at the start of the summer, he passed the 500 mark for the first time since April on Friday.