The Île-de-France and Hauts-de-France regions will be re-defined this weekend, but also the Alpes-Maritimes, Seine-Maritime and Eure.
This is the main announcement of the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, during his press conference this Thursday evening.
The measure comes into effect at midnight on the night of Friday to Saturday and must last at least four weeks
Seven days a week, you will need a certificate to leave your home.
"Travel to walk or play sports will be governed according to more flexible rules than in March and last November, without time limit and within a radius of 10 km maximum around home," said Jean Castex.
Schools will be open, but non-essential businesses will have to close.
On Wednesday, government spokesman Gabriel Attal announced that only the Île-de-France and Hauts-de-France regions as well as the neighboring departments would be affected by new measures.
The Alpes-Maritimes, already confined at weekends since the end of December, are therefore also affected by this turn of the screw.
7 p.m. curfew
On all the rest of the territory, the curfew will begin this Saturday at 7 p.m. and more at 6 p.m.
The purpose of this measure is to compensate for the biannual time change, on the night of Saturday 27 to 28 March.
It will be dark an hour earlier from this last weekend in March.
23 departments had been placed under reinforced surveillance for two weeks, with the closure of non-food supermarkets of more than 10,000 m².
A majority of them therefore spend under confinement 7 days a week. If Jean Castex has not unveiled a new map, these territories are still showing indicators at very high levels.