In France, the reopening of restaurants will take place in stages between the beginning of May and the end of June.

A restaurant closed, like all the others in France due to health restrictions.

Here in Nice, April 1, 2021. REUTERS - ERIC GAILLARD

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Emmanuel Macron, questioned by onlookers in Melun during a walkabout, Monday April 26 indicated that restaurants would reopen in stages between early May and late June depending on the incidence rate of Covid-19 in the departments.

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The deconfinement schedule will soon be defined in France. According to the government spokesperson, Emmanuel Macron should return " 

soon 

" to the French to present the stages of the reopening of public places in mid-May. In the meantime, the French president, questioned by onlookers, explained that things would unfold gradually for restaurants depending on the incidence rate of Covid-19 in the departments. " 

We will do opening stages: there is the stage of May 3 (end of traffic restrictions, editor's note), there will be mid May, there will be a stage - I think - around the beginning of June, and then another mid-end of June, 

”he explained on the sidelines of a trip to Melun, in Seine-et-Marne, on the occasion of the start of the school year.

"  

I think that we cannot reopen the restaurants, let's say at the end of May or in June, in departments where it still circulates a lot

, warned Emmanuel Macron but,

in others where it has fallen a lot, I think that" they will have to be opened 

”.

The Head of State wanted to be confident and reassuring, especially on frequenting terraces: " 

we can see that it is less annoying than when you are inside, it is common sense

 ". 

The lifting of restrictions is eagerly awaited by restaurateurs who have accumulated about eight months of closure since the start of the pandemic.

Another subject on which Emmanuel Macron is eagerly awaited: the reopening of cultural places.

"

We will try to reopen (them) before, from the first phase, with reduced gauges

,

"

said the President of the Republic.

"

For the theater, the cinema and others, we can see that if we limit the number, we can (reopen them) in the first phases

 ".

For several months

the world of entertainment has been mobilizing

for the resumption of cultural programming with many occupations in French cities. 

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