measures must be announced Friday morning at a press conference, but wearing a mask in public places to open is considered.

the prefecture of The North was announced this Thursday, the next strengthening of sanitary measures at the local level in the department in the face of increasing cases of Covid-19 in the past two weeks.

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Excluding the possibility of a “reconfinement,” which “would be harmful both to the collective well-being, family life, professional activity and for the economic world”, Michel Lalande, prefect of the North, and Stephen Champion, director general of the regional Agency of Health (ARS) of the Hauts-de-France, have announced in a statement it had decided “to impose the strengthening of measures of prevention”.

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These measures should be announced Friday morning at a press conference, but wearing a mask in public places to open is considered.

on Wednesday, the minister of Health Olivier Veran had referred to discussions with the prefect and the director of the ARS of the North planning to make the mask mandatory in the outdoors, “given the proximity with Belgium”, faced an increase in cases in recent days.

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The prefecture had indicated on Wednesday that in addition to the proximity of Belgium, “of the findings of local laxity in behaviour and a significant increase in the number of cases” would justify these measures.