So the French president gave a speech yesterday. The covid situation is better so he laid out a three stage approach to the lifting of restrictions. Stages two and three are contingent on if the number of new cases keeps below 5,000:
Saturday, November 28th
- 'Non essential' shops can reopen, until 9pm and under strict health conditions
- The 1km rule is to be scrapped for exercise, instead people will be allowed to exercise for up to three hours a day, and go up to 20km from their homes.
- Extra-curricular activities at schools can restart, but only outside
- Religious services will be allowed again, for no more than 30 people
December 15th
- Lockdown will end and attestations will no longer be required. Travel between regions of France and meeting family and friends will be allowed
- Large gatherings public gatherings are not permitted and private gatherings should be kept as small as possible, but there was no number limit
- A 9pm to 7am curfew will apply to the whole country
- The curfew will be lifted on December 24th and 31st
- Extra-curricular school activities can restart indoors
- Cinemas, theatres and museums can reopen, with strict health controls in place
January 20th
- The reopening of restaurants and cafés, as well as gyms and leisure centres
- Restarting of full-time in-person teaching in lycées, and then 15 days later in universities. At present both lycées and universities are doing a mixture of online and in-person teaching, while universities are limited to 50 percent capacity in lecture halls.
- The abolition of the curfew
Regarding vaccines he said the first vaccines will begin in late December or early January. He will not make vaccination compulsory.
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