According to a government source, the executive decided to confine the Pas-de-Calais department only on weekends.

Paris, Ile-de-France, and all the other departments placed under "enhanced surveillance" will not experience any turn of the screw. 

The executive decided to confine the Pas-de-Calais department over the weekend, but neither Paris and Ile-de-France nor any of the 20 departments placed under increased surveillance, a government source told the AFP.

On the other hand, additional measures will be adopted in these departments, on a case-by-case basis, targeting in particular the places of brewing, added this source.

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