In the historic centre of Marseille, around the touristy Old Port and in the streets around, the mask will be mandatory between 10 a.m. and 4 o’clock in the morning.
With the presence of tourists and festive events recorded in some districts, the port of the mask outside will become mandatory in Marseille on Saturday in high-traffic areas, said Friday the prefecture of the Bouches-du-Rhône.
In the south-west of France, the wearing of the mask has also become mandatory on Friday at the dune du Pilat, the highest sand dune in Europe (102,5 meters), was climbed by nearly two million visitors each year, of which one-third was, by virtue of a municipal decree.
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In the historic centre of Marseille, around the touristy Old Port and in the streets around, the mask will be mandatory between 10 a.m. and 4 o’clock in the morning. On the walk from the le Prado beaches and the sector Borély, in the south of the city, as well as on the Cours Julien and around the place of the Plain, two emblematic places of the nightlife of marseille, it will be taxed between 19 hours and 4-hours of the morning.
“there has been an increase of cases in the 20-40 year-old, who participate in festive events and are often asymptomatic, with a risk of contamination to others”, detailed at a press conference the préfète delegated to equal opportunities, Marie Aubert. Ensuring the acting prefect of the region, it is she who will sign a decree forcing the port on the mask until the end of August.
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Thursday, the regional Agency of health (ARS) Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’azur has raised the level of vigilance of the Bouches-du-Rhône “limited” to “moderate”, in response to the first signs of a reversal of the epidemic and a “loosening of the behaviors found during the summer period,” according to the préfète.
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The deputy director general of the ARS, Sébastien Debeaumont, recalled the existence of 16 outbreaks in the region, including eight in Marseille, mainly related to the organization of festive events private. It has, however, clarified that there was no particular tension at the level of hospitals, and consultations.
the Face of the large flow of tourists, the mask-wearing has been made mandatory in the centre of Saint-Tropez (Var) from Saturday, having already been imposed in some areas highly frequented in Paris, or even in the centre of Nice, Bonifacio (Corsica) or Biarritz (south-west).
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In the Var department, particularly popular with tourists, the mayor of Toulon, Hubert Falco, has announced Friday the cancellation of the fireworks and the passage of the patrouille de France on the Mourillon beaches for the celebrations of August 15.
