(Fighting against new crown pneumonia) France's Alpes-Maritimes province will take measures such as "closing the city" on weekends to contain the epidemic
China News Agency, Paris, February 22 (Reporter Li Yang) The official local time of the Alpes-Maritimes province in southeastern France announced on the 22nd that the province will take measures such as "closing the city" on weekends to curb the new crown epidemic.
Gonzalez, the governor of the Alpes-Maritimes province, announced on the same day that it will implement a weekend "closed city" in areas where 90% of the province's population is concentrated to control the local spread of the new crown virus.
He once again emphasized that the province has the highest incidence of new crowns in France, and the situation is worrying.
Gonzalez announced the details of the implementation of the weekend "closure of the city" in the Alpes-Maritimes province.
The weekend "closure of the city" will start at 6 o'clock every Friday night and last until 6 o'clock every Monday morning.
People must bring a travel certificate to go out. Going out will be limited to one hour and cannot leave the residence within a radius of 5 kilometers.
The weekend "closed city" will last at least two weekends.
The cities in the Alpes-Maritimes province that were affected by the weekend’s “lockdown” include the capital of Nice, the famous city of Cannes, Antibes, and the border city of Menton between France and Italy.
Nice, Cannes, Antibes, Menton and other cities are all tourist attractions.
Gonzalez said that travel in the relevant areas is prohibited during the weekend "closure".
In addition to "closing the city" on weekends, the Alpes-Maritimes province also requires stores with a business area of more than 5,000 square meters to suspend business from the 23rd; stores with a business area between 400 square meters and 5,000 square meters will further limit the number of customers.
At the same time, the Alpes-Maritimes province will also strengthen border control with Italy.
Gonzalez also stated that the Alpes-Maritimes province will speed up the process of COVID-19 vaccination. In the next few days, the province will receive an additional 4,500 doses of Pfizer vaccine in order to vaccinate the local high-risk population as soon as possible; this figure is higher than the previous announcement by the Minister of Health Vilan. The number has increased by 1,000 doses.
France officially supports the adoption of strengthened controls in some areas to deal with the epidemic, and promised to closely monitor the spread of the virus.
Salomon, a senior official in the French health system, believes that the epidemic in Alpes-Maritimes is “out of control” and the measures taken in recent weeks are not sufficient to effectively contain the epidemic.
According to the latest official epidemic data, France has a total of 3609827 confirmed cases on the 22nd and a total of 84613 deaths.
The number of inpatients with the new crown in France is now 25831, and the number of critically ill patients is now 3401.
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