The law of March 23, 2020 establishing a state of health emergency invented general containment. The future law, on the profession of the Senate on Monday, breaks with the latter but extends the state of emergency, creating on this occasion new derogatory legal tools whose real scope will be given by the implementing decrees.
The new text allows compulsory quarantine for anyone, " when entering the national territory or upon arrival " in an overseas department and more surprising " in the community of Corsica ", or " From one of these communities, from people who have stayed in an area where the infection circulates ".
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This island oddity about Corsica already makes senators tick. But this provision, inspired by what is already practiced overseas, takes the government out of ambiguity. During his speech on April 28, Édouard Philippe had suggested the introduction of a forced quarantine for anyone
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