Paris, SAEDNEWS, Oct. 14: A "curfew" will be introduced in and around Paris and eight other main cities from this weekend, from 9pm until 6am in the morning. It will kick-in from midnight on October 17 and will last for four weeks. The new measures come four months after the last lockdown was phased out as infections decreased. The restrictions, already outlined by the government, were confirmed by President Emmanuel Macron in a televised address to the nation on Wednesday evening. The month-long period could be extended to six weeks, but this would require the approval of parliament. The eight metropolitan areas affected by the new measures apart from the Paris region are in and around Grenoble, Lille, Lyon, Aix-Marseille, Montpellier, Rouen, St Etienne and Toulouse. Altogether some 19 million people are affected. "In view of its spread on the national territory, the COVID-19 epidemic constitutes a health disaster endangering, by its nature and its seriousness, the health of the population. It justifies that the state of health emergency be declared so that measures strictly proportional to the health risks incurred and appropriate to the circumstances of time and place can be taken," a government report read (Source: Euronews).
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