Past the Holidays, France may experience a third coronavirus epidemic wave in January 2021. A prospect casting the shadow of another lockdown over the country. We must say that this would not be a never-before-seen measure: over the globe, several countries are placed into lockdown for the third time since the crisis broke out.
Coronavirus: several countries across the world in their third lockdownBut a possible new local-based lockdown has been ruled out for now by the executive that prefers curfew from 6 p.m. in departments the most hit by the pandemic. All in all, twenty departments where the incidence and hospitalization rates are the highest.
"We will propose to extend curfew that will start from 6 p.m. instead of 8 p.m. in all territories where it is necessary" Olivier Véran said this Tuesday evening on France 2. Measures to be instated from January 2.
Covid: "Additional measures will be made" in Île-de-France, Attal confirmsAccording to the map of hospital occupancy rate in France, four regions are listed in red area: Grand-Est, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. As of December 28, 2020, they respectively display an occupancy rate of 64.7%, 90.4%, 76.7% and 62.6%.
It is the incidence rate of departments and cities that will settle on the implementation of an early curfew or not: a rate above 200 for 100,000 inhabitants.
15 departments were first placed under curfew. There were:
8 new departments have been included on Sunday January 10, 2021. There are:
Here are the Defense Council's propositions to limit the spread of coronavirus:
Other restrictions might be implemented in the event the epidemic was breaking out again past the Holidays.
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