Jogging trips and sports in general had been a recurring subject since the start of confinement. Until then, outings for a sporting activity were authorized within a radius of one kilometer and limited to one hour, but the Paris City Hall, in agreement with the Prefecture, came on Tuesday to tighten the rules even more. "From April 8, 2020, outings for individual sports activities will no longer be authorized between 10 am and 7 pm throughout the territory of Paris," said the City Hall in a press release, to regulate the influx of people. in the streets, and allow athletes to go out only when the crowds in the streets are the least.
The goal: to avoid a relaxation
"Outings, even authorized, must be strictly limited to what is urgent and essential, and can not become grounds for multiple daily trips or lead to promote groupings in public space," also said the press release. The goal is to avoid "any risk of loosening containment measures by a renewed influx in public space, thanks to mild weather". In all cases, the certificate of derogatory trips must be completed, on paper, or on smartphone since Monday. "Conscious of the scale of the efforts requested and already carried out by all over the past three weeks, (Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, and Didier Lallement, Prefect of Paris police) point out that each exit avoided is useful in the fight against epidemic ”, also explains the press release.
As France enters its fourth week of containment, the latest official figures show 74,390 confirmed cases of Covid-19 contamination and 8,911 deaths.
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