“A clear improvement in the situation.
At the end of the Council of Ministers preceded by a Health Defense Council, the government spokesman Gabriel Attal let emerge a note of optimism.
“There is a 20% drop in contamination over one week and an incidence rate in the country of 224, which is also a drop of around 20%.
"Thus, the schedule for reopening announced by the Head of State and its second stage should be respected," if the decline is confirmed, "he moderates, however.
"Vigilance with regard to variants"
"The decline in the epidemic is accelerating" but "it still remains longer than in November after the second confinement.
Our hospital and our resuscitation services are always extremely in demand, ”he summarizes, however.
Gabriel Attal recalls that “we must be very vigilant in the face of variants which are progressing in certain territories and represent 11% in Ile-de-France and 13% in Paris”.
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"From May 19, we must rediscover our French art of living, while remaining cautious and responsible: our conviviality, our culture, sport," Emmanuel Macron insisted in an interview broadcast last Thursday on our site.
According to the roadmap, the French will find their way back to restaurants, admittedly on the terrace only and with a maximum of six people per table.
The curfew, previously established at 7 p.m., will be postponed to 9 p.m. Museums, monuments, theaters, cinemas and performance venues with seated public (within the limit of 800 indoor spectators, and 1000 at the exterior) will also be allowed to open.
Sports activities, both outdoors and indoors, will once again be permitted.
Football stadiums and other sports establishments may reopen on the same date, with the same size as the venues.
Gatherings of more than ten people will be banned, compared to six today.
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Emmanuel Macron had mentioned the possibility of "activating
emergency brakes
" in the departments which exceed a rate of 400 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants over seven days. Much too light, consider many epidemiologists.
