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The French Prime Minister's Office has announced that increased controls will be carried out in the departments subject to lockdown measures to ensure compliance with restrictions
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The most recent data from the National Health Agency has shown that on average in the Alpes Maritimes around 600 new cases of Covid have been declared each day from the 16th to 22nd March.
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New lockdown measures similar to those already in place in 16 departments of France since last Saturday, are to come into force from midnight tonight in the Rhône, Nièvre and Aube.
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French Minister of Health Olivier Veran has been speaking at a press conference in Paris this evening to give an update on the coronavirus situation. He said that more than 45,000 people have tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours and the trend is accelerating almost everywhwere in France.
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The new wave of Covid-19 in Hauts-de-France is the largest ever observed since the start of the epidemic a year ago. In a press release published today the regional health agency has said that "the hospital situation remains very tense in the Hauts-de-France with 60 to 70 people entering intensive care every day".
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Speaking on Greek television the French President Emmanuel Macron has admitted that the EU had not believed soon enough in the vaccination against Covid, unlike the Americans.
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France’s Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, has requested that prefects enforce restrictions in the whole of France in the fight against the spread of Covid. The minister has asked authorities to be “strict” in implementing the measures which “do not allow people to gather indoors and any outdoor gathering is limited to six”.
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A lockdown may be put in place in three more French departments
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Public Health France has reported seven new deaths linked to Covid-19 in hospitals in the Alpes-Maritimes. Since the start of the epidemic, the coronavirus has killed 1,703 people in the department (1,260 in hospitals, 443 in nursing homes).
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France is experiencing the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. While new lockdown measures were introduced in 16 departments last Saturday, the health situation is also deteriorating in the rest of the country as shown by figures published by Public Health France on Tuesday March 23rd.
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President Macron has said that he wants at-risk professions to be vaccinated from mid-April. He confirmed that teachers would be part of the vaccination campaign
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The mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi maintains that an early exit from the lockdown, currently in place in the Alpes Maritimes, “is possible” adding that he will be holding talks on the subject with the Prime Minister Jean Castex within the next 48 hours.
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More than 4,500 Covid patients are hospitalised in intensive care in France with Public Health France reporting 15,792 new cases of Covid on Monday 22nd March.
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The French Minister of Health, Olivier Veran, has said that at least 35 large vaccination centres will be established across France
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Members of the Scientific Council in France have warned that regions other than the 16 departments subject to new restrictions could soon find themselves in a "very difficult" situation, particularly the PACA and the Bouches de Rhones.
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The final version of the “attestation” required in the sixteen departments including the Alpes Maritimes, which are currently under lockdown, has gone online on the government’s website.
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