The French are known to be extra cautious in the face of heat, which does not exempt gestures and barriers of wearing a mask.
a full episode of a heat wave, sweltering, which knocks out two thirds of the French, the mask will be imposed as soon as Monday, outdoors in the busiest areas of Paris, after the Lille, Marseille and many other cities and tourist sites to reduce the increasing cases of Covid-19.
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from Monday, it will be forbidden to loiter on the banks of the Seine, a stroll in Montmartre or shop in the large shopping streets of the capital, without wearing a mask, according to the decision of the prefecture. The same applies to many municipalities in the Ile-de-France since “all the indicators showed that the virus circulates more actively in the region”, according to the prefectures of the départements.
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Sunday morning in Paris, the tourists were enjoying the relatively cool morning, before the mercury climbs and the obligation of wearing a mask is required. “Sunday, August 9, with temperature minimum/maximum set to 25 and 39°C, should be the peak of the heat wave in Paris”, warned on Twitter Gaétan Heymes, Météo-France.
But the heat will play extra time in the capital. “The refresh is postponed to next Thursday in Paris, who lives his week the most disgustingly hot since 1873, out August 2003. Thunderstorms possible in the next few days but the atmosphere is still very hot and heavy in the capital city,” added his colleague, François Jobard.
Tourism morning
Arrived around 9: 30 at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, Hervé Le Hir, 51 years old, and Michel Lacaze, 67 years of age, agree a break hydration after 40 miles of biking from Claye-Souilly in Seine-et-Marne. “Usually it leaves at 9 am, but there one has advanced the departure at 6: 30am,” explains Hervé. “We do not force, I barely sweated”, adds Michel. “We took a detour by the Arc de Triomphe, the Champs Elysées, Concorde, a part of route of the Tour de France ! “says this retiree that rolls a hundred kilometres per week.
Anne Guerin, 32-year-old dips his feet in a fountain filled around the Pyramid of the Louvre. Coming from Dijon for the weekend with his friend and his father-in-law, she has everything planned : in his backpack, “water, cream, a cap, and misters, we are well equipped”, she says. But first of all, “a lot of pausing and walking in the shade”.
The French are known to be extra cautious in the face of heat, which does not exempt gestures and barriers of wearing a mask (it should not be wet), hammer the health authorities. Long touted as “useless” by the authorities, the mask became mandatory in enclosed public places on July 20, under penalty of a fine of 135 euros. Since a week, the prefects are authorised to impose outside “when the local circumstances require”. And nearly 2 out of 3 French (64%) approve of now the mandatory wearing of masks in public places open, according to a survey of the Fifg for the Sunday Newspaper.
Or sports, or outings for children
In an interview with the JDD, the professor of immunology Jean-François Delfraissy, head of the scientific Council to assist the government to manage the health crisis, has held that the obligation of wearing a mask to the outside would “impose naturally”. Regarding the evolution of the epidemic in France, “the situation seems contained, but it remains very fragile,” he stressed, confirming the warning this week of the scientific Council.
Several key indicators for monitoring the epidemic Covid-19 continue to deteriorate in France: 2288 new cases were announced on Friday. To minimize “the risk of over-mortality” in the context of the heat wave that occurs during the health crisis and the pollution to the ozone, 15 departments of the north-west which Bets are placed on red alert, which concerns 30% of the population, and 49 are in vigilance orange (35%).
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The department of Health asked the centers of vacation and recreation for children to avoid out”, unless they are held in places more costs without the need to travel, exposing them to the heat.” The sports activities are also advised against. “This heat wave will be particularly severe in Normandy and in the Hauts-de-France”, Saturday said Olivier Proust, a forecaster at Météo-France.
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A phenomenon that is expected to be completed “by the west from Wednesday’s” only, with a degradation to be a stormy one marked, according to Météo-France. With the heat, measures are also taken to limit the pollution of the air. The métropole Rouen Normandie has maintained this Sunday the totally free introduced Saturday in all of its public transport.
