The government does not count not impose new restrictions to fight the 7th wave of Covid-19, confirmed Elisabeth Borne, guest of TF1 this Wednesday. “The epidemic is starting again. So I call on everyone to be vigilant. (…) When you are in closed spaces, where there are a lot of people, you have to wear a mask, especially in transport”but “we do not intend to have a national measure of obligation” because “the French today know the right gestures”, declared the Prime Minister on TF1.
In the morning, the mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi announced on RTL that the mask would again be compulsory in public transport in the metropolis from Monday. “I took my decree with other mayors of the metropolis of Nice (…) so that everyone from Monday wears the mask in a mandatory way”on the 2,500 km of the bus and tram network, said the elected official, ex-LR.
More than 200,000 positive cases were identified in 24 hours on Tuesday according to Public Health France. If admissions to conventional hospital wards start to rise, the numbers are currently “far below the January peak” however, underlined the new Minister of Health François Braun on Tuesday, encouraging the most fragile to carry out their second vaccination booster (4th dose).