The port of the mask to the outside extends to more and more cities and tourist sites in France then that a freak heat wave hit the country.
The heat wave is ending in France, but the Covid-19 knows no respite : the Paris marathon scheduled for November has been cancelled and the calls are more urgent to generalize the mask to the outside in order to counter the rise of the epidemic.
Prime minister Jean Castex, fearing a return to a health-care system “powered”, has summoned Tuesday the French to pull themselves together to prevent a resumption of the epidemic, advocating for the wearing of the mask in spite of the heat wave.
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“The Prime minister is right, something happens : the curves back a little bit. (…) It is necessary to break this cycle (…) It is out of the question that we reconfine the France”, said Wednesday on LCI Patrick Pelloux, emergency physician at Samu de Paris and president of the Union of emergency doctors hospital of France.
The mask “all around”
He has advocated wearing a mask everywhere, judging it to be “incomprehensible” to the schema where it is imposed in some areas frequented. “It is incomprehensible. In Paris, there are streets where you wear it, streets where you should not wear it. Getting lost. It is necessary to wear it everywhere, at the national level”, has hammered Patrick Pelloux.
The port of the mask to the outside extends to more and more cities and tourist sites in France. After many areas of Paris, it is the centre of the city of Bordeaux, which is added to the list as soon as Saturday, as well as the open-air markets of the Var and of the Cantal Friday, or even the area around the arenas of Béziers during the “mini-feria”is scheduled this weekend.
The government spokesman Gabriel Attal has reminded that the controls would be strengthened. “Today there are a number of positive cases detected every day, which is around 2,000, three weeks ago, it was 1000. Three weeks ago, we had an average of five clusters discovered every day, it is now at 25, we can see that there is a recovery so what we need is a coming to our senses a collective”, he said during a trip to Ajaccio.
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The number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 is up : 11 223 new cases in a week, of which 1397 in the last 24 hours, according to the latest balance sheet of the ministry of Health published on Tuesday, even if the number of patients in the icu is still relatively stable (-5 391). According to the official figures, the number of cases daily has exceeded 2000 that Friday and Saturday.
a Sign of the increasing uncertainty, the Paris marathon, scheduled for 15 November, has been cancelled. The race, which goes each year to the most emblematic places of the capital (starting on the Champs-Elysees, Opera, Bastille, Notre-Dame, Eiffel Tower…), originally scheduled on 5 April, had been postponed on two occasions, October 18 and November 15.
Towards the end of the heatwave
“In fifteen days or three weeks, we might start to have tensions in the csr, if nothing is done immediately,” was put in custody Tuesday on France Inter, Djillali Annane, head of the department of resuscitation medical-surgical Hospital Raymond Poincaré in Garches.
A reason why Jean Castex asked the prefects to”expand the port of the mask” in public spaces, which also announced Tuesday the extension of the prohibition of gatherings of more than 5000 people until 30 October.
on the front of the heat wave, Météo-France has lifted this Wednesday, the red alert, “which is no longer justified”. In spite of everything, the 13 departments (Hauts-de-France and Ile-de-France), which have already recorded on Wednesday, temperatures between 32 and 36°C, will remain in vigilance orange, just like 31 other departments of a large north-eastern quarter of the country.
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The heat wave is finally going to be hunted Thursday, or Friday for the East, to a worsening storm that pushed Météo-France to place a large part of the western half, a total of 47 departments in vigilance orange for storms.
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The multiplication of heat-waves is one of the markers, the clearest of the warming of the planet and even if this new episode will not have reached the intensity of those of 2019, with a record of 46°C, or the length of the heat wave history of 2003, it should be ranked in the five most severe suffered by the country.
