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Covid-19: Anne Hidalgo is again opposed to confinement of Paris at the weekend

2021-03-01T18:20:06.228Z


Without recalling the possibility of a three-week confinement in Paris, the mayor campaigned for the maintenance of the opening of parks and gardens.


No weekend breaks, and more ventilation for families, she defends.

The PS mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, reiterated on Monday his opposition to a containment of the capital at the weekend, advocating on the contrary access to public spaces for the population and asking that the rate of vaccination be multiplied by four.

"I recall here that I am opposed to the idea of ​​a weekend confinement in Paris", a measure taken in particular in Dunkirk and Nice to fight against the spread of the coronavirus, said Anne Hidalgo in a statement after s '' be brought together with the district mayors, the police headquarters and the regional health agency (ARS).

Without mentioning "the hypothesis" of a three-week reconfinement mentioned last Thursday by Emmanuel Grégoire, his first deputy, she, on the contrary, defended the possibility for Parisians to go out: "The more we restrict public spaces and time. ventilation for families, the less we fight against Covid, ”she assured.

"This is what we learned from the first confinement, outside we are less likely to catch the Covid when we wear a mask and we respect barrier gestures", a- she asserted.

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The parks, gardens and roads on the bank, however evacuated Sunday by the police, are "essential places to breathe in our city", she insisted, stressing that "Parisians are exemplary for twelve months […].

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To cope with the epidemic, she suggested "to teachers to give lessons with open windows, taking advantage in particular of the return of sunny days".

"I also suggest to the National Education to allow teachers to teach outdoors whenever possible.

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Anne Hidalgo also asked that “the saliva tests allow us to test more quickly and more massively the children of the schools affected by the Covid” and that “this screening be repeated every two weeks”.

The mayor of the capital also called for an acceleration of vaccination.

“At the end of March, at the current rate, only a quarter of Parisians over 75 will have received two doses of vaccines.

I asked the ARS, the police prefect and the regional prefect, that we can quadruple the quantities of vaccines in the Parisian metropolis, ”she said.

Source: leparis

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