mayor Anne Hidalgo has submitted on Tuesday a request to the prefect of police of Paris. The list of affected areas is not yet fixed.
The list of municipalities imposing the wearing of the mask outside and in the fight against the Covid-19 extends. Paris may well soon join. According to the information of the World and the AFP, Anne Hidalgo wants to make compulsory the wearing of masks in certain areas of the capital. The newspaper reports that the mayor of Paris has sent on Tuesday a request in this sense to Didier Lallement, the prefect of police of Paris.
“Wear the mask is unpleasant, especially when it is hot, but it is a gesture really necessary when the epidemic starts again,” says the World Anne Souyris, the assistant to the mayor of Paris in charge of health. “We will, therefore, ask that it be made mandatory in the outdoor locations where there is a lot of world, and respect the distance of one meter between each one is difficult”, ahead of-t-it.
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The list of affected areas is not yet fully frozen. It should include at least the shopping streets, the quays of the Seine, the parks and gardens, the surroundings of the stations and the markets discovered. The places where the tourists and the Parisians are lining up in the open air should also be included. In may, Anne Hidalgo, which called for the reopening of parks and gardens of the capital, against the advice of the government, was already that wearing a mask is mandatory in the parks and garden.
An upswing of the epidemic in Paris
“We incitions already the Parisians to use the mask as much as possible, but it was not much follow-up,” acknowledges Anne Souyris. In the streets, “90 % of people don’t have” assesses the assistant to the mayor of Paris, with strong variations from one quarter to another.
The progression of the epidemic of coronavirus in Paris raises concerns. On the 25th of June, the number of people diagnosed positive in the last seven days had fallen to 5.5 per 100 000 inhabitants, according to public Health France. Since then, the rate is clearly on the rise again. At 25 July, it reached 27 per 100,000 of the population, compared to 11.6 nationally. According to this criterion, Paris is even the third department is the most affected of France, behind the French Guiana (177) and Mayenne (55).
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“After having declined until June, all the indicators now show a rebound of the Covid-19 in Paris and its region. The movement is slow, but steady for the past month. There has been a shift clear. This is a shame, but we are at the beginning of the second wave,” says Anne Souyris.
