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It is not the end of the tunnel.

But, for the first time, you see some light.

France

is preparing to reopen.

The first thing, the only thing already decided, is the end of the traffic restrictions that now prevent all citizens from moving beyond 10 km from their home, except for compelling and duly justified reasons.

The ban will be lifted on Monday, May 3.

This has been decided by the Government, gathered around the president, Emmanuel Macron, like every Wednesday.

The head of state will return to address the nation when the calendar for the progressive return to normality is fully defined.

Macron appeared on March 31 to announce the confinement of the country for four weeks, from April 3 to May 2.

In addition to traffic restrictions, schools were closed taking advantage of the Easter holidays.

The children in nursery and primary school will return to their classrooms next Monday.

The older ones, a week later.

So far the certainties. The rest is still pending a final decision. For example, the

curfew

: it will be maintained although it will surely be relaxed. Now it governs from 7:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. Before or after the Ascension Bridge (May 13-16), museums, cultural centers and bar terraces will reopen that have been closed since ... November. Non-essential businesses that have 'only' been closed for a month will also reopen. All this with access and / or schedule limitations.

In contrast,

travelers from India will be quarantined for 10 days

.

This measure is already in force for those arriving in France from Brazil, Argentina and South Africa as well as from the French territory of Guyana.

It is justified by the virulence of the local Covid strains.

The beginning of the reopening, announced by the spokesman of the Executive,

Gabriel Attal

, rests on the improvement of the figures of the pandemic.

Thanks to confinement, the number of infections has gone from 43,000 to 32,000 daily.

By mid-May they should drop to 20,000.

What should relax the tension in the UCIS that continue in record numbers of 6,000 hospitalized.

The improvement seems credible for two essential data.

The R factor is less than 1. In other words, the epidemic recoils.

Although little.

It is at 0.9 which means that each French with Covid contaminates less than one person.

In March 2020 it reached 3 and in the second wave 1.5.

It is estimated that above 1.2 an epidemic becomes uncontrollable.

The second cause for optimism is the advance of vaccination despite the rejection of the puncture with AstraZeneca.

Some

13 million French people have already received a dose

(19.4% of the population and about 25% of adults) according to data from the Ministry of Health.

Almost 5 million French (7% population, 9% of adults) have completed the process with a second dose.

By the way, vaccination certificates and test results will now carry a data matrix (such as the QR code) that allows better control and prevents falsifications.

Customs officers, police officers or airline employees will thus be able to check them more quickly and accurately.

The citizen can also scan it to integrate it into the

TousAntiCovid

application

.

Experimental controls have been arranged on flights to Corsica and overseas territories.

From May, they could be extended to flights with some border countries.

Apparently, this device must be similar or part of the European vaccination pass.

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