D-2 before the start of deconfinement. Many French people will return to freedom after two months of confinement. But their outings will be framed by numerous instructions, in order to avoid a second wave of the coronavirus epidemic which left more than 26,000 dead.

Given the circulation of the virus and the risk of saturation of hospitals, four regions (Île-de-France, Hauts-de-France, Grand Est and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) are classified in red on the map established by the ministry. of Health, as well as the department of Mayotte, where the deconfinement is even postponed beyond May 11 and where the government will send additional resources. This maintains 32 departments in total and nearly 27 million inhabitants in a still very controlled regime.

In the rest of the country, in green on the map, "you have to be careful not to think that everything is settled, that there is no longer any need to wash your hands, that you can kiss, etc. ", warned France Virologist Marie-Paule Kieny, member of the Research and Expert Analysis Committee (Care) responsible for advising the government.

Pressure relieved in hospitals

To avoid a new outbreak of the epidemic, "it is absolutely necessary" that people "apply barrier gestures, that is to say that they move from confinement at home to confinement on oneself, thinking that oneself -Even we must protect ourselves, we must protect others ", insisted this former Assistant Director-General of WHO.

The pressure on resuscitation services continues to ease, with 93 fewer patients with Covid-19 disease, or 2,868 severe cases. "We need to find oxygen so that, in the event that a second wave arrives, we are ready. We have three to four weeks ahead of us, we must take advantage of them to free up or even create beds resuscitation ", said on his side on TF1 Philippe Juvin, head of the emergency department of the Parisian hospital Georges Pompidou.

"The situation remains tense, we have little room for maneuver," he warned.

The state will also make from Monday "10 million masks available to transport operators to distribute them to their users", including 4.4 million for the Île-de-France region, according to the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner.

The challenge of social distancing in public transport

The situation looks particularly delicate in Île-de-France where compliance with the rules of distancing in public transport will drastically reduce its capacity. Sixty out of 302 Paris metro stations will remain closed and an employer certificate will be required to operate during peak hours (from 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.) in the Ile-de-France networks.

"You have to clench your teeth for three more weeks", a decisive phase "to know if we are able to stifle the virus," said Aurélien Rousseau, director of the Regional Health Agency, to Paris.

On the economic front, deconfinement began on Friday at SNCF for mainline trains, with a restart of service at 20%. Again, with the wearing of a mandatory mask.

With AFP

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