Travelers from India will now also be subject to compulsory ten-day isolation upon arrival in France, government spokesman Gabriel Attal announced on Wednesday, while confirming the timetable for the gradual lifting of restrictions on the territory. .

"For some countries where the health situation is extremely serious and particularly worrying and worrying, we are still tightening the screws", he declared at the end of the council of ministers, announcing that the health defense council had decided in the morning add India to the list of countries whose travelers are already subject to mandatory quarantine (Brazil, Chile, Argentina and South Africa), in addition to the French department of Guyana.

Gabriel Attal said the government would hold a press conference on Thursday during which he will address the issues of borders, schools, the vaccination campaign.

The government spokesperson confirmed that the timetable put forward by Emmanuel Macron in his speech of March 31 was indeed "the working basis", with a reopening of schools scheduled for April 26, a lifting of travel restrictions on May 3 and a reopening of "certain terraces" and places of culture in mid-May.

“Encouraging” results in France

Across the country, "it appears that we could be at the peak (of the epidemic) or close to it," said Gabriel Attal, taking stock of the past week.

"The first effects" of the restrictions "are noticeable, the number of new cases detected is decreasing", as well as the incidence rate and the number of patients hospitalized over a week, "and the number of people in intensive care tends to stabilize" , he stressed.

These “encouraging” results are, however, “still insufficient”.

"At this stage the epidemic is receding half as quickly as in November", and "hospital pressure remains extremely strong".

The situation is very disparate in the territory, between "a fall in the incidence of between 15% in Hauts-de-France and nearly 20% in the South region", an "encouraging trend also in Occitanie, Auvergne-Rhône -Alps, in Burgundy Franche-Comté, in the Grand-Est ”, and a“ tendency on the other hand less favorable than the national average ”in Pays-de-Loire, Center-Val-de-Loire, New Aquitaine and especially Corsica .

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