Time.news – The French President, Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Jean Castex took an outdoor coffee in a bar near theEliseo to celebrate “the rediscovered freedom”, on the day of the reopening of bars and restaurants (in the open spaces), gods shops and many activities after weeks of anti-Covid restrictions.
“It is a small moment of rediscovered freedom, the result of our collective efforts”, said Macron in front of the cameras, inviting the French to “get used to living the present moment together”, but to remain “prudent to be able to collectively control the epidemic”.
Before walking to the Elysée for a new defense council with the prime minister, the president assured that “if we continue to vaccinate, if as citizens and citizens we observe collective discipline, there is no reason not to be able to make progress “.
From today in France, bars and restaurants, closed since October 30th, so for over six and a half months, are again authorized to serve customers but only outside, up to 50% of their capacity and a maximum of six people around the same table.
In this new phase of ‘déconfinement’, cinemas, theaters, museums and all the shops that have been closed for weeks are reopening from today, in compliance with health regulations, distancing and a maximum threshold of customers and users. From this evening the curfew will no longer start at 7 pm but at 9 pm and from 9 June at 11 pm, before being lifted at the end of June.
France has accelerated its vaccination campaign in recent weeks, but still remains below the European average with so far 30.22 million of inoculated doses in all to 21.09 million people, equal to 31.2% of the population. According to official data released by the Ministry of Health, 13.5% of citizens (9.12 million) have already received the two doses.
Santé Publique said that every day on average about 17,000 new cases are recorded – the positivity rate is 4.5% – in the last 7 days there have been 5,000 hospitalizations and yesterday there were 187 victims. of the pandemic in France there were over 5.89 million cases and 108,069 victims.
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