“We do not intend to have a national measure of obligation”, because “the French know today the good gestures”, declared the Prime Minister Wednesday evening on TF1.
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A call for “vigilance”, without however“obligation” national. Faced with the seventh wave of Covid-19, the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, invited the wearing of a mask in the “closed spaces where there are many people”but “we do not intend to have a national measure of obligation”, she declared to the 8 p.m. newspaper of TF1, Wednesday July 6.
“The epidemic is starting again. So I call on everyone to be vigilant”especially the elderly and vulnerable “to do their second encore” vaccine, insisted the head of government. “It’s important because there’s going to be a lot of shuffling this summer.”
“When you are in closed spaces, where there are a lot of people, you have to wear a mask, especially in transport”, she added. An obligation is not necessary in his view, because “the French today know the right gestures”.
The number of new Covid-19 contaminations has risen to 154,615 over the past 24 hours, according to data from Public Health France. On Tuesday, 206,554 cases of contamination in 24 hours had been identified.