The city of Paris imposes, from Monday, the wearing of the mask in certain areas. Very busy areas, the map of which was detailed on Saturday evening and explained by the security assistant at the Paris town hall, and which concerns no less than a hundred streets in almost all of the districts of the capital.

All masked in certain areas of the capital. In Paris, as in many other cities before it, wearing a mask will be mandatory from Monday in certain areas. "All indicators show that the coronavirus is circulating more actively in the region again," the statement said.

The areas concerned are in particular the quays of the Seine and more than a hundred streets in almost all of the districts of the capital. These are "tourist areas, open markets or very shopping streets", "quays of the Seine, Canal Saint-Martin" but also "Butte Montmartre, very touristy", explained to AFP Nicolas Nordman, deputy to security at the Paris town hall. Wearing a mask will be compulsory for those over 11 from Monday at 8 a.m. Europe 1 takes stock of the sites and streets concerned.

# COVID19 | Wearing a mask will be compulsory in #Paris in areas with high traffic from Monday, August 10 at 8 a.m. https://t.co/HOfho8JcQn
For more details see our press release pic.twitter.com/ cPigy6eWge

- Police Prefecture (@prefpolice) August 8, 2020

First district: Center, 9th, 16th and 17th arrondissements

The map, designed by the Department of Proximity Security of the Parisian agglomeration, offers a division into three districts. The first concerns the 1st, 9th, 16th and 17th arrondissements, requiring the wearing of a mask in the following places: 

Center district : rue Montorgueil, Marché des Enfants Rouges, rue Rambuteau, rue de Bretagne, rue des Francs Bourgeois, rue Saint-Honoré, rue de Montmartre.

9th district : rue des Martyrs, rue Cadet, food market in Antwerp.

16th arrondissement : rue de Passy, ​​and rue de l'Annéquence.

17th arrondissement : avenue de Saint-Ouen, rue de Lévis, rue Poncelet, rue Bayen.

Second district: 10th, 11th, 12th, 18th, 19th, 20th arrondissements

As for the second district, it concentrates most of the sectors concerned and is organized as follows:

10th arrondissement : rue de Metz, boulevard de Strasbourg, rue du Château d'Eau between Fb St Martin and Fb St Denis, rue Cail, rue Perdonnet, rue Philippe de Girard, place Ian Karski, rue Louis Blanc in its portion between the place Karski and the Faubourg Saint-Denis, rue du Faubourg Saint Denis, rue Lucien Sampaix, rue de Lancry, rue des Vinaigriers, quays of the Canal Saint-Martin (Jemmapes and Valmy).

11th arrondissement : rue de la Roquette, rue de Lappe, rue Keller, rue Daval, rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, Belleville market, rue Oberkampf

12th district : Bercy-Village, Cour Saint-Emilion, Aligre market

18th arrondissement : Barbès market, Lariboisière market, Ornano market, boulevard de la Chapelle (between Tombouctou and boulevard Barbès), rue des Islettes, rue de la Goutte d'or, rue des Poissonniers, rue Dejean, rue de Suez, rue de Panama , Dejean market (triangle of rue Poulet, Poissonniers and Dejean), Porte Montmartre market (including square aux biffins), Ordener market, rue de Steinkerque, avenue de Saint-Ouen, boulevard de Clichy, boulevard du Rochechouart, market Poteau, rue Duhesme - between Ordener and Poteau, Paris flea market, rue Riquet (between Marx Dormoy and Pajol), rue de l'Olive, butte Montmartre (place du tertre, square and Marche du Sacré-Cœur, rue Norvins, rue du Mont Cenis ).

19th arrondissement : quai de la Loire, quai de Seine, quai de Marne, quai de l'Oise to the entrance to Parc de la Villette, rue de Bellevillle, Joinville market, Place des Fêtes, avenue Secrétan, avenue Mathurin Moreau, rue Manin, avenue Jean Jaurès between rue de l'Ourcq and Porte de Pantin.

20th arrondissement : rue des Panoyaux, rue Victor Letalle, rue Sorbier (between rue Menilmontant and rue Juillet), belvedere of Parc de Belleville, boulevard de Belleville, boulevard de Ménilmontant, rue de Ménilmontant, rue des Pyrénées, rue de Bagnolet, rue d'Avron, flea market at Porte de Montreu.

Third district: 5th, 6th, 7th, 13th, 14th and 15th arrondissements

Finally, the third district includes the six arrondissements of the left bank of the Seine:

5th and 6th arrondissements  : rue Mouffetard, rue de Buci, rue de Seine, rue Mazarine, rue Jacques Callot, rue Princesse, rue des Canettes, rue Guisarde, Saint-Germain market, Tino Rossi garden

7th arrondissement : rue Clerc, market on avenue de Saxe.

13th arrondissement : quai François Mauriac, quai de la gare, Bibliothèque Nationale de France (square, steps and quay), Maison-Blanche market on Avenue d'Italie.

14th district : rue Daguerre, rue Raymond Losserand (between rue d'Alésia and avenue du Maine).

15th district : rue du Commerce, rue Linois.

The press release also specifies that the mask is compulsory on all “low” quays, banks of the Seine accessible to pedestrians and “soft” traffic, both right bank and left bank. The areas of the right bank extending from quai de Bercy (12th) to quai Louis Blériot (16th), and those of the left bank, from quai d'Ivry (13th) to quai d'Issy-les-Moulineaux (15th) ).

"The criteria were places where there are people, where it is difficult to respect the distance, places of celebration where there may have been a relaxation of barrier gestures" in recent weeks, said the deputy. to security at the Paris town hall. At first, "there will be pedagogy", "the obligation will be reminded for a fortnight to people entering the area concerned, and the verbalizations (135 euros, Editor's note) will occur in a second time", said -he.