D-1 before the start of deconfinement, the time is to be careful. The authorities have renewed calls for "vigilance", particularly in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, a region in the green zone. Two epidemic centers appeared: one in the Dordogne after a funeral, and the other in a college in Vienne after a meeting to prepare for the start of the new school year.

In addition to respecting the famous barrier gestures to avoid a new outbreak of the epidemic, and after many procrastination on the subject linked to the shortage, it will be necessary to go out masked in transport in particular. And strict rules of "distancing" will be applied in the workplace as in stores.

"Everything is not settled"

Four regions (Ile-de-France, Hauts-de-France, Grand Est and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) and 32 departments in total, including Mayotte, remain classified "red" because of the always rapid circulation of the virus and the risk of saturation of the hospitals which it involves.

While the number of victims continues to decline, "we must be careful not to think that everything is settled" in the areas classified "green" on the epidemic map, specialists insist. The number of victims continued to decline.

As of Monday, shops, transport and schools will experience a new stage.

  • Transportation :

The state will make from Monday "10 million masks available to transport operators to distribute them to their users", including 4.4 million for the Ile-de-France region, according to the Minister of 'Interior Christophe Castaner. Access to certain stations such as the major Parisian stations may be filtered by the police, to prevent too many people from rushing there.

On the SNCF side, one train out of two on average will run from May 11, with 60% of Transilien and 50% of TER in detail, explained SNCF CEO Jean-Pierre Farandou. The SNCF plans about a third of the TGV, with "a ramp-up if the situation allows". Only one seat out of two can be reserved in TGVs.

All the RER stations will be open, as will the metro stations connecting to the major Parisian stations (Gare du Nord, Gare de l'Est, Saint Lazare) and the major transport hubs (Châtelet, Les Halles, Montparnasse), said RATP. Conversely, the République metro station, one of the busiest on the network, will remain closed.

The public company plans to run an average of 75% of metros -85% on line 13, very busy, and 100% on automatic lines 1 and 14-, 75% of RER A and B, 75% of buses and from 80 to 100% of trams.

  • Traffic in Paris

Some sixty stations of the Paris metro, out of a total of 302, will remain closed Monday at the start of deconfinement, announced Friday the Secretary of State for Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari.

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo fears that car traffic will become "too intense" next week. If so, she plans to request "alternate traffic" because "the health of Parisians and residents of the metropolis is at stake," where air quality can deteriorate very quickly, says T her in an interview with the Journal du Dimanche.

After two months of confinement far from Paris, tens of thousands of Ile-de-France residents have started to return home. With apprehension for some. "It was in the green zone, in the village there must have been some cases but very few ... There we know that it is the home, the epicenter", confides Jean-Baptiste, back from two months with his family in Brittany to return to work.

  • Schools  

Almost 85% of the 50,500 schools planned are to reopen on Monday. They will welcome "more than 1.5 million children", out of a total of 6.7 million kindergarten and elementary school children. "A large part of the remaining 14% of schools should reopen" before the end of the month, said Blanquer. But the implementation of health rules sometimes turned into a headache and worried local elected officials and parents.

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