Posted on 12/06/2021 12:33:59 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Nightclubs in France will be ordered to close for four weeks starting this weekend to counter surging Covid-19 cases that have seen hospitals announce emergency protocols as beds fill up, Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Monday.
Stricter social distancing and extended use of face masks will also be required in schools as France faces a fifth wave of virus cases, said Castex, who himself just emerged from quarantine last week after contracting the virus.
"We have all had a tendency to lower our guard" in recent weeks, he said.
But the government held off on imposing stricter measures for the general population or the non-vaccinated in particular, as several other countries have done in recent days.
"The situation demands an individual as well as a collective effort," he said in a televised address following a cabinet meeting on the crisis.
"But it's no longer the time for lockdowns," he said, citing a French vaccination rate of nearly 90 percent of the eligible population, while urging non-vaccinated to get the shots, not least in a show of "solidarity" with health workers.
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All for a new variant of COVID-19 that has all the effects of the common cold. 😒😑🙄🦠
A face mask stops a virus as much as trousers stop a fart.
A face mask stops a virus as much as a chain link fence stops mosquitos.
What a sick mind one must have to get off to muzzling the populace.
Gosh, that’s mighty big of you.
And, by gum, THIS time it’ll work!
Breaker breaker CONvid One Nine. We got us a scamdemic here Rubber Duck!
bring out the guillotine, that should get some attention
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