France The French Government dramatizes its message: creates super red and scarlet zones and increases restrictions
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The truce between French political forces, observed without fail since the beginning of the Covid 19 epidemic, has been blown up.
The total closure of bars and restaurants in Marseille has sparked a local rebellion.
The conservative president of the region speaks of "punishment" and resorts to the courts and the ecologist mayor criticizes "one-sidedness".
The hoteliers, on the warpath, speak of not respecting the dry law.
Health Minister Olivier Veran, visiting a Marseille hospital yesterday, defended the decision: "I am perfectly aware that the measures provoke debate and provoke concerns and doubts, even anger.
But they are necessary, they are not arbitrary and they are temporary" .
They will last, in principle, 15 days and are justified by three epidemiological criteria: new cases, percentage of Covid patients in ICU and incidence in older people.
The latter is the one that has determined the inclusion of the Marseille conurbation in a state of health emergency.
It was Veran himself who gave an account on Wednesday night of the restrictions imposed on the two departments (provinces) that inaugurate the scarlet category:
Guadeloupe and the Aix-Marseille metropolis, where 1.8 million people live in 92 communes.
Yesterday the head of Health made a minimal inflection by admitting that the closure begins on Sunday instead of Saturday.
The prime minister had refused 24 hours earlier to delay the measure for ten days.
Jean Castex
defended the decision: "If we do not act, we could find ourselves as in spring and that means a new confinement."
The surprise measure taken in Paris immediately elicited the rejection of the local authorities.
Renaud Muselier
, president of Provence, Alps, Côte d'Azur, conservative, considered it "a punishment" in statements in all the media.
The mayor of Marseille,
Michèle Rubirola
, an environmentalist, was disappointed in criticizing the "one-sidedness" of the Paris executive.
Muselier announced an appeal to the courts.
Yesterday, Professor
Didier Raoult
, controversial defender of chloroquine,
joined
the crowd, answering the data that, for him, "do not justify the slightest panic."
The hoteliers show their rejection.
Some call for rebellion and say they will not close
.
They say that they pay justly (those who say they respect the health security instructions) for sinners (those who refuse to wear a mask, young people who make bottles etc.).
Yesterday, hundreds of restaurateurs gathered before the Commercial Court of Marseille where, they say, they will be forced to present their suspension of payments.
The criticism has been added, in another tone, the mayor of Paris.
Anne Hidalgo
has denounced the "lack of agreement" and expressed her disagreement with the closing of bars at 10 at night that will take effect on Monday in Paris and 10 cities on "maximum alert".
The restaurants in this deep red zone are not subject to new time restrictions.
The French Government this week has given a twist to the measures to fight against the pandemic that is advancing unstoppably and
has forced to postpone some interventions in Parisian hospitals
.
New infections are worrying.
But above all, the speed at which the virus multiplies, which if not stopped could put a strain on hospitals and, especially, resuscitation units.
This seems to have inclined the President of the Republic to follow the advice of the experts and his Minister of Health.
When he proposed in a defense council on September 11 the closure of bars in Bordeaux and Marseille, he was met with the resounding refusal of Emmanuel Macron.
What's more, he earned a fight, leaked to the newspapers, due to the queues at the centers that do tests and the delay in the results.
Since then it has improved somewhat.
But above all, infections have increased,
spurred by the beginning of the year parties and youth meetings.
However, the situation is not comparable to that of spring.
The R rate, which measures the number of people infected by each patient, is 1.05 or 1.07, depending on the calculation methodologies.
To control the epidemic it must be below 1. In the spring peak it exceeded 3.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
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