France is bringing forward the lifting of a nationwide curfew by 10 days amid falling numbers of daily positive Covid tests. Guidelines on mask-wearing are also expected to be eased sooner than expected. The MailOnline has the story.
Speaking after a cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Jean Castex told a news conference on Wednesday that the night-time curfew would now end from June 20th, and that face masks would soon no longer be required outdoors.
After restaurants, bars and cafes were allowed last week to reopen indoors for the first time in seven months, Castex said life in France was at last starting to return to normal.
“We’re on the right track – let’s keep up our efforts,” Castex said. “The health situation is improving faster than we had anticipated, everywhere in mainland France.” …
The [Delta] variant accounts for the bulk of new infections in Britain, but French Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Tuesday it only represented 2-4% of confirmed cases in France…
Castex said pressure on French hospitals had decreased significantly. The number of people in intensive care units was down by 116 to 1,952 on Tuesday, according to health ministry data.
France’s seven-day moving average of new cases, which was above 40,000 two months ago, stood at 3,500 on Tuesday. French health experts say the pandemic can be considered under control if the rate is below 5,000.
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Meanwhile in communist-run UK, Sir Desmond Swayne is properly angry (and rightly so):
“There is much on which we are going to have to reflect!”
“I Could Understand if we were a Communist Party” Desmond Swayne Slams Lockdown and Boris Johnson.
It’s not Communism, it’s Technocratic-Fascism.
People in France still HAVE to wear masks outdoors? What’s the settled science say in France? Lots of people getting infected in parks and walking down sidewalks?
No, it’s complete bollocks, as with anything else in this pack of lies.
I literally have to wear a mask if I walk through the local village, despite the fact that I know for a fact that there won’t be a single person out and about.
Or, alternatively, France is bringing forward the lifting of a nationwide curfew by 10 days amid dire poll ratings for Macron’s LaRem:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1450682/Emmanuel-Macron-France-regional-elections-polls-marine-le-pen-thierry-mariani
France is reducing its restrictions so that they will be broadly in line with what the UK has had for the last month. Very considerate of them.
Mask wearing outside is ended tomorrow. The French have tended to keep mask on in town centres, which I have not and hated, so this is a relief. Now its ’round the chin’ for a lot in shops I think, until this is also removed.
The EU have just put the US on the ‘white list’ which means unvaccinated and normal tourists from the US can now enter the EU and travel normally. I think most countries will probably insist on at least antigen tests in practice, but its at least a positive move. Likely this will be reciprocated soon. Which makes me very happy, I will be able to see my son in Denver and holiday in Florida in October ( fingers crossed).
At the same time the French PM said that up to 50% of people will be fully vaccinated by the end of the summer. I have felt for some time this is the max they can hope for. However it hasn’t stopped the dreadful decision to vaccinate over 12s to try to get the numbers up. Its meeting a lot of resistance, and if 50% of parents are not getting vaccinated then there is some hope it might collapse as a policy.
Slapping Macron works better than nudging obviously.
Who really cares if it works or not? Worth it just for the satisfaction….
We should be grateful for what we got but I do wish the slap had been harder. A lot harder. Knocked him off his feet harder. Bloodied his nose and dislodged teeth harder.
AGREE !!!! Nice Christian thought from me a ‘well brought-up Catholic”
I fear for our French neighbours. Tens of thousands of lives will be lost if people are allowed to walk in the open air without a magic mask. Haven’t they got a scary Ferguson model to prove it?
They should guillotine the unvaccinated: that would reduce transmission.
As long as they disinfect the blade between executions, you wouldn’t want people catching anything.