The rue de Rivoli in Paris during the first confinement.

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From this Saturday evening, 7 p.m., the whole of France will be concerned, for four weeks, by the new restrictive measures applied so far to 19 departments to curb the coronavirus epidemic.

In addition, all of France is now affected by confinement with curfew.

From this Saturday, at 7 pm, “non-essential” shops as well as schools and nurseries will close their doors.

As Easter Monday is a public holiday, these measures will only be visible from Sunday.

Travel more than 10 kilometers from home, in his region, without a compelling reason is prohibited from this evening at 7 p.m.

As for travel between regions, a tolerance is observed until Tuesday to return from the Easter weekend, or, for those who can, to leave their region to isolate themselves in a second home or with their family.

Reconcile teleworking and home schooling

After this period, departures will no longer be authorized, except to drop off a child with a loved one.

From Tuesday, millions of parents will have to reconcile telework and home schooling, before the disrupted school holidays, from April 12 to 25 for everyone.

The government has also backpedaled by authorizing childminders, who look after children at home, to finally continue their activity for the next three weeks, after a mess the day before when it had first said that they should suspend their activity. , before indicating that the question was not definitively settled.

Announced Wednesday by Emmanuel Macron, the closure of schools for three to four weeks should help calm the epidemic, marked by a "sharp increase in the number of new cases for three weeks", according to Public Health France.

Indicators on the rise

258,830 new cases (nearly 37,000 per day, + 22%), 12,572 hospitalizations (+ 16%), 2,732 arrivals in intensive care units (+ 13%), 1,840 deaths: the health agency notes a "deterioration of all indicators on the whole of the metropolitan territory ”last week.

More than 96,000 Covid-19 patients have died since the start of the epidemic and there were still more than 46,000 positive cases recorded in 24 hours on Friday.

SPF even underlines in its weekly update that "the indicators have been increasing for two weeks" among those 75 and over, after an improvement attributed to the vaccination campaign.

5,254 Covid-19 patients were in intensive care on Friday, against more than 7,000 patients in early April 2020, at the peak of the first wave.

During his speech, the Head of State did not set any target for a threshold of cases per day, unlike the second confinement in October, where the target of 5,000 daily cases was never reached.

Gradual reopening in mid-May of certain places

But Emmanuel Macron promised the reopening "with strict rules" of "certain places of culture" and "terraces" from mid-May.

The executive promises a new acceleration of the vaccine campaign (9 million first doses, 3 million second doses), with a promised rate of 400,000 daily injections by the government's Vaccine Mister, Alain Fischer, in

the Figaro

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Vaccination, "it is the medium-long term solution" but "for the week or the weeks to come, vaccination cannot be the solution", warned Vincent Maréchal.

Another parade: the multiplication of tests.

Those who wish will be able to buy self-tests from April 12 in pharmacies, which can be used at home, announced Olivier Véran in an interview with the online media Brut.

If the result is positive, an RT-PCR test should be performed to confirm contamination.

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