"The health situation is improving faster than we had hoped," said Jean Castex on leaving the Council of Ministers. “In view of these results, it is normal that we adjust certain measures,” he said. Without making the suspense last longer, he announced the lifting of the obligation to wear a mask outdoors, "from tomorrow", Thursday. The Prime Minister, however, specified that the French should continue to wear it "in crowded places, in queues or in markets". Second major announcement, eight months after the start of the curfew in France, it will finally be lifted. "The 11pm curfew, which was supposed to apply until June 30, will cease to apply from Sunday, or 10 days before the scheduled date," he said.

The Prime Minister thus indicated that "we had not known such a low rate of circulation since last August", that the number of daily contaminations had passed under the threshold of 5,000, that no department had to date "of worrying dynamic ”and finally that the pressure on hospital services had fallen sharply with less than 2,000 people hospitalized in critical care units.

“These positive developments are to be blamed on the mobilization of the French and the vaccination campaign.

More than 30 million people received a first dose of vaccine before the deadline of June 15 set with Olivier Véran ”, he also detailed and specified a new objective: 35 million French people vaccinated with two doses of here at the end of August.

" Too early "

The Prime Minister Several voices were raised to ask to advance the lifting of the curfew planned in principle on June 30, one of the topics discussed this Wednesday morning in the Health Defense Council, according to a government source. The day after the Euro France-Germany match which saw the victory of the Blues and thousands of supporters massing in the streets and on the terraces in Paris, sometimes without a mask, the boss of LREM deputies Christophe Castaner estimated this Wednesday that the “match” against the Covid, to remove the mask outside, was still “not won”, the opposition also calling for caution and clear rules.

In the opposition, the spokesman of the PS Luc Carvounas warned on Public Senate against an end of the obligation of the mask outside "from July 1" prepared according to him by the government: it would be "too early ", And that could only be possible according to him" when we have enough French women and men vaccinated ", he estimated.

Health Minister Olivier Véran called on Tuesday for “collective vigilance” in the face of the Delta variant.

“In the coming weeks, wearing a mask remains the rule as it has been set, there is no need to change it,” he said.

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