Paris (AFP)
Shops, terraces of bars and restaurants as well as cultural places, including cinemas and museums, will reopen from Wednesday, May 19, at the same time as the curfew will be pushed back to 9 p.m., Emmanuel Macron said in an interview on Thursday. to the regional press.
Cafes and restaurants will reopen indoors from June 9, when the curfew will then pass to 11:00 p.m., before night-time restrictions and gauges are lifted on June 30, if the health situation allows it.
"Stage zero was the reopening of schools on April 26. We have assumed this educational priority and this strategy of living with the virus, including in the face of a high level of incidence, higher than that of our neighbors" , explained the head of state, according to extracts disseminated by newspapers on their site.
They announced that they would broadcast the entire interview at 9:00 p.m.
"We will then open in four stages. May 3, end of certificates and travel restrictions. From May 19, we must rediscover our French art of living, while remaining careful and responsible: our conviviality, our culture, sport ... "he said in an interview with the regional daily press.
In drinking establishments and restaurants, on the terrace (from May 19) then indoors (from June 9), customers can only be six at the table.
Museums, monuments, cinemas, theaters and performance halls with a seated audience will be able to resume their activity with a maximum of 800 people indoors, 1,000 outdoors.
The same will apply to outdoor sports establishments.
Sports halls will be able to reopen, with respect for appropriate gauges and protocols, from June 9.
Events with more than 1,000 people will be authorized on June 30, with a health pass, that is to say on presentation of a negative test or a certificate of immunity.
The entire system and schedule may however be adapted, especially in the event of a sudden and massive worsening of the health situation, department by department.
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