France imposes new coronavirus measures amid spike in infections

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>The French government has announced new Covid-19 measures in an effort to curb the spread of coronavirus but stopped short of imposing drastic restrictions before New Year’s Eve&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Starting from next week&comma; big events will be limited to 2&comma;000 people indoors and 5&comma;000 people outdoors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>People will be requested to sit down during concerts and customers will not be allowed to stand up in bars&comma; French Prime Minister Jean Castex said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Eating and drinking will be banned in cinemas&comma; theatres&comma; sport facilities and public transportation&comma; including on long-distance routes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Working from home will be mandatory at least three days per week for employees whose job makes it possible&comma; Mr Castex added&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The new rules will be in place for at least three weeks&comma; he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The move comes after France recorded more than 100&comma;000 virus infections in a single day for the first time in the pandemic&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>President Emmanuel Macron held a special virus video conference with key government members from his holiday residence at Fort de Bregancon on the French Riviera&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The new measures remain less strict than those put into place last December&comma; when a nightly curfew was imposed across the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Castex made basic recommendations for New Year’s Eve&comma; including avoiding big parties and dinners&comma; wearing a mask&comma; ventilating the room and getting a Covid-19 test – all &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;common sense actions”&comma; he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He confirmed that schools will reopen as scheduled on January 3 and said political rallies will not be affected by the new rules for democratic reasons before April’s presidential election&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The French government appeared to be trying to strike a balance between measures needed to relieve hospitals and keep the economy running at the same time&comma; as the fast-spreading Omicron variant complicates the situation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are in a race against the clock&comma;” Mr Castex said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>More than one in 100 people in the Paris region have tested positive in the past week&comma; according to the regional health service&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Most new infections are linked to the Omicron variant&comma; which government experts predict will be dominant in France in the coming days&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Macron is also wary of the impact on public opinion of potential harsh measures less than four months before the presidential election&comma; in which he is expected to run&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Castex stressed that hospitals’ intensive care units are not saturated because of more than 90&percnt; of France’s adults being fully vaccinated – in sharp contrast with the situation last year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The government hopes to speed up the nation’s booster campaign by reducing the delay in getting the shot from four to three months after the previous vaccine shot&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The government on Monday also presented a bill aimed at creating a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;vaccine pass”&comma; which will allow only vaccinated people to enter public places&comma; including restaurants&comma; bars and cinemas&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The measure will be debated at parliament next month&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e7b53d2f">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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