In order to increase capacities for Covid-19 patients, the hospitals in the greater Paris area are to reduce their medical activities, such as planned operations, by up to 40 percent. This was instructed by the regional health authority ARS, as it confirmed on request today. Well over 900 people are in intensive care in the greater Paris area.
The general director of the ARS Ile de France, Aurelien Rousseau, fears that the next two weeks will be particularly difficult, as the newspaper „Le Parisien“ quotes from an internal letter from the authority to the clinics. The CoV situation in the French capital is tense.
There is an increased CoV warning level. A weekend lockdown like in Nice or Dunkirk does not apply in the greater Paris area. The police prefecture had recently imposed a ban on alcohol in numerous public places such as the banks of the Seine. At the weekend she cleared the banks because distance rules had not been observed there.
Probably adjusting the curfew
The Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, brought an adjustment to the curfew from 6 p.m. onwards. If you look at the working hours in Paris, you can see that the working day is usually not over at this time, she told the channel France Inter. „We start a little later in the morning and of course finish a little later in the evening.“
There has been a strict curfew in France for weeks. Shopping or walks are prohibited after 6 p.m., exceptions apply to commuting to work.
