In front of a bar in Paris, October 6.
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Nine of major French metropolises, including Paris, are living their last evening of freedom this Friday before the entry into force of a curfew on Saturday.
A total of twenty million French men and women in Ile-de-France and in the conurbations of Toulouse, Montpellier, Marseille, Grenoble, Lyon, Saint-Etienne, Lille and Rouen, will be subject from Saturday to a curfew night between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. to fight against the coronavirus.
“At 9:00 pm, everyone should be at home”, Prime Minister Jean Castex detailed Thursday, “all places, businesses or services open to the public will be closed”.
The French Prime Minister also announced that "all private parties" held "in multipurpose rooms or any other establishment open to the public will be prohibited" throughout the territory, and that all restaurants in France will have to apply a health protocol. reinforced.
Slow the spread of the virus
The French government is trying to slow the spread of the virus as the number of new cases of contamination in twenty-four hours exceeds 30,000 for the first time since the launch of large-scale tests.
These new measures affect restaurant owners, but also students.
Agathe, enrolled in the first year of law in Montpellier, expects "the cancellation of all her baby-sittings evenings".
“It will be so much less money for me, I hope it won't last.
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The coronavirus pandemic has killed nearly 1.1 million people worldwide since the end of December, according to an assessment established by AFP on Friday morning.
Some 38.97 million cases have been officially counted, of which more than 26.6 million have been cured.
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