To curb Covid-19 contaminations, the curfew is brought forward to 6 p.m. in some departments from Sunday.

New territories joined the list on Saturday, such as Cher, Côte-d'Or, Allier, Haut-Rhin and Bas-Rhin.

In other departments, negotiations between the prefect and elected officials take longer, as in the Bouches-du-Rhône.

But according to Jean Castex, these measures are necessary.

After the Bas-Rhin, the curfew was brought forward to 6 p.m. from Sunday in the departments of Haut-Rhin, in Cher, Allier and in Côte-d'Or.

The prefectures concerned announced it on Saturday morning.

"With an incidence rate of 243.60 per 100,000 inhabitants and a positivity rate of 10.80%, the health situation in Cher remains extremely worrying," wrote the prefecture in a press release.

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Shops will therefore have to close at 6 p.m.

Take-out will be prohibited after this time, but home deliveries are still possible.

It will also be possible for a parent to pick up their child from nursery or school after an extracurricular activity, and employees or high school students ending their days after 6 p.m. will be able to return home during the curfew.

Similar arrangements have been made in Côte-d'Or, where the seven-day incidence rate is 218.4 per 100,000 inhabitants in the general population, and 239.2 per 100,000 inhabitants among that of more 65 years old.

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Fifteen departments have already known this advanced curfew for a week and the government announced Friday its possible extension to ten other departments.

The decision is taken in consultation with local stakeholders and negotiations are not progressing uniformly in all departments.

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In Marseille, between bronca and positions taken by elected officials in the media, the atmosphere is reminiscent of that which reigned during the imposed closure of restaurants in September, when the decision was taken in pain.

This is one of the explanations why the Bouches-du-Rhône were still not fixed on their fate on Saturday noon.

"In reality, we apply in Marseille, the same criteria that we apply elsewhere. Everyone is aware that the epidemic is not weakening or that it is on the contrary strengthening differently in certain areas of the territory", underlined Jean Castex on Saturday, in margin of a trip to Tarbes, defending "difficult but necessary measures".

Saturday morning, among the new departments mentioned, Haut-Rhin, Bas Rhin, Côte d'Or, Allier and Cher will therefore go under an extended curfew from Sunday.

Haute-Savoie could have been part of the list, but on Friday the prefecture announced that it had not, before going back, then specifying on Saturday morning that finally the department remained under curfew at 8 p.m.

Vaucluse, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Yonne are also still in suspense.

Communication, sometimes a little complex, is carried out over time, by the prefects, but this is undoubtedly the price to pay of the government's desire to allow differentiated measures according to the departments and taken at the local level. .