Restrictions on extended gatherings and travel

Jean Castex speaks about the coronavirus epidemic, Thursday, August 27.

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Due to the continuation of the coronavirus epidemic, the law allowing restrictions on gatherings or movements will "surely" be extended beyond October 30, Jean Castex said in front of the MoDem parliamentarians this Tuesday in Sanguinet in The Landes.

"The Parliament (...) will surely be seized of an extension of the law that you voted a few weeks ago on the exit from the health emergency so as not to deprive us of all tools in the face of this crisis which is not finished ”, specified the Prime Minister.

"More structural lessons on the management of this crisis"

France voted for a state of health emergency between March 24 and July 10 due to the pandemic.

A law organizing the exit from this state of emergency then came into force for the period from July 11 to October 30 on most of the territory, except Guyana and Mayotte.

This law provides, for example, for possible restrictions on the movement of people or vehicles as well as access to public transport, where the virus is active.

It also makes it possible to supervise gatherings, close establishments or impose virological tests on people arriving or leaving the territory.

"When the time comes, Parliament will have to draw more structural lessons from all this on the management of this crisis," continued Jean Castex.

"On the strengths it has brought to light and the mobilization of our fellow citizens that it has aroused, but also on the limits and weaknesses of our organization," he added.

"The strongest and most responsive measures in the entire European Union"

Jean Castex, who went in the morning to a hospital in Arcachon (Gironde), also defended the management of the crisis by the government and the majority who "have taken and continue to take the measures that the seriousness of the situation requires ”.

“If we compare ourselves with the countries around us, the protection we owe our fellow citizens has been provided to the best of our ability.

Not only health protection, but also the protection of our economy and our fellow citizens ”, he pleaded.

Jean Castex notably assured that "it is in France that purchasing power (...) has been best safeguarded" (...), "that the economic fabric has collapsed the least", "that we have taken the strongest and most responsive measures in the whole of the European Union ”.

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