The horizon cleared up a bit at the end of Emmanuel Macron's speech.
The head of state unveiled this Tuesday evening the rate at which the confinement would be eased in the coming weeks.
Traders, restaurateurs, grandparents, families with children ... All had a good reason to follow the presidential speech attentively, one month before the end of the year holidays and while the second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic has passed its peak.
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Here is more precisely what awaits you, chronologically, until the beginning of next year.
November 28: reopening of shops and places of worship
As expected, the first to benefit will be businesses considered "non-essential", such as toy stores and bookstores.
All stores will be able to welcome customers again from Saturday, November 28, until 9 p.m.
The government had hitherto put forward a possible reopening date "around December 1".
VIDEO. Confinement: shops and places of worship reopen on Saturday
Finally, the schedule could be accelerated in view of the improvement in the health situation and the postponement of the Black Friday commercial operation by one week, to December 4, limiting the risks of excessive crowds in the shops from this last week. -end of November.
This same Saturday, November 28, churches, mosques, temples and other places of worship will be able to reopen their doors to the faithful, with a gauge set at 30 people and a reinforced health protocol.
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This decision should in particular satisfy the Catholic community.
Many of its members gathered in the street every Sunday in November, Place Saint-Sulpice in Paris but also in other cities in France.
Also from November 28, we will be able to take the air for 3 hours and within a radius of 20 km around our home, against 1 km today.
December 15: end of confinement ... under conditions
If the health situation has improved significantly, that is to say if the daily number of contamination has fallen to 5,000 on average and that of patients in intensive care does not exceed around 2,500 or 3,000, confinement will end on the 15th. December.
However, it will be necessary "to limit unnecessary travel", indicated the Head of State.
A curfew will remain imposed on the whole territory from 9 p.m. every evening, except December 24 and 31.
If you plan to go celebrate Christmas with a loved one across the country, it will be possible.
Travel from one region to another will be authorized.
However, the Head of State recommends not to gather too many, especially if you come from different places.
Getting together with the family, yes, but while limiting as much as possible the mixing of populations and therefore the risks of transmission of the virus.
Not before January: opening of winter sports resorts
Regarding winter sports resorts, "it seems to me impossible to envisage an opening for the holidays", indicated the Head of State, who is betting rather on "during January in good conditions".
January 20: reopening of restaurants and sports halls
They are undoubtedly the big losers of this progressive deconfinement, but they already suspected it.
Restaurants, often singled out for the risks of contamination inherent in any very busy closed place, will have to keep their doors closed during the holidays as well as during the first days of 2021. If the health situation remains under control, they could accommodate new customers from January 20.
Emmanuel Macron did not mention the bars at this precise moment.
Their reopening will "not be at the same time as the restaurants", indicates the Elysée to the Parisian.
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However, sports halls may also reopen on January 20.
In addition, all courses in college and high school can take place face-to-face from this date, again if the level of circulation of the virus remains at limited levels.
From the end of December: first stage of vaccination
As we must anticipate the possible arrival of a third epidemic wave, and not only organize the second deconfinement, Emmanuel Macron also mentioned the French vaccination strategy.
The European Commission has already signed a pre-order agreement with six large pharmaceutical groups for more than a billion doses of vaccine, and the first European marketing authorizations are expected by the end of the year.
In detail, vulnerable people will be given priority.
They can be vaccinated from the end of December or early January, provided that a product is available and validated by then.
On the other hand, Emmanuel Macron ruled out making vaccination compulsory.
