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Coronavirus: authorities urge French people to stay at home

2020-04-05T05:09:29.154Z


"No relaxation, stay at home," launched Saturday the director general of the AP-HP Martin Hirsch, deploring the presence of "too many walkers" in Paris.


Faced with an assessment which has jumped to more than 7,500 dead in France, evacuations to relieve hospitals in Ile-de-France will continue Sunday April 5, as well as the instructions of the authorities not to go out, after a Saturday where some loosening has been observed in places, especially in Paris.

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Confined since March 17 to fight the spread of the epidemic, France has recorded 441 additional deaths in the last 24 hours in hospital, less than Friday with the worst daily toll since the start of the epidemic (588 dead). Taking into account the 2,028 deaths in nursing homes and other medico-social establishments, this brings to 7,560 the total death toll due to this virus. On Saturday, more than 6,800 people were in intensive care. " Tonight, we have never had so many resuscitation patients ", underlined the general director of Health Jérôme Salomon, during his daily press briefing. While the peak of the epidemic is " approaching ", according to him, the French are invited not to relax the effort of confinement and to spend at home the Easter holidays, which began this weekend.

" No relaxation, stay at home ," urged AP-HP director general Martin Hirsch, deploring the presence of " too many people in the streets, too many strollers, too many walkers " in Paris, crossed by caregivers on their way to work.

Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer said it was " impossible " to know when students could return to class. Once the containment is lifted, it will take " several days " to organize a gradual return to school, after a complete cleaning of the establishments, and " perhaps not everywhere at the same time, " said the minister.

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Source: lefigaro

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