Cafes, bars and restaurants may well reopen their terraces on May 19 everywhere in France, for tables of six guests, then their rooms on June 9, but they will have to be limited to half of their capacity, know Monday the services of the Prime Minister.
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Professionals hoped that certain territories, with better health indicators than elsewhere, would be exempt from this 50% gauge, which will severely handicap them, while only 40% of these establishments have a terrace, and that foreign tourists, like the business clientele, will not be back this summer.
