France to close schools and extend Covid-19 lockdown to all of the country, Macron says

[brooklynite]

Source: France 24

President Emmanuel Macron extended light lockdown measures from 19 areas including Paris to all of mainland France from April 3 for 4 weeks at a televised address on the resurgent Covid-19 pandemic on Wednesday.

Macron widened the light lockdown measures currently imposed on a third of the French population – including the Paris region – to all of mainland France. “We don’t have to lock ourselves in but we need to limit our contacts,” he said.

“We tried to push back this day for as long as possible – but unfortunately it has now arrived,” the president continued. “We will lose control if we do not act now.”

Macron also announced a closure of all schools and day care centres for three weeks until April 26. Yet he also justified his policy of keeping them open since the end of the first lockdown in spring 2020, which has received intensifying criticism over recent weeks: “School is non-negotiable,” he said.

Read more: https://www.france24.com/en/france/20210331-live-macron-addresses-france-as-covid-19-cases-resurge

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[progree]

1. Some countries and U.S. states for comparison, daily new cases per 100K, 7 day average

World daily new cases up 59% since February 19 at 572,062 daily new cases (7 day average), but still below the 739,500 peak on January 11. (February 19 was 359,115 cases).
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/coronavirus-maps.html

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Countries from the link above.

U.S. states from https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html

Some countries and some U.S. states (daily new cases per 100,000, 7 day moving averages) :

U.S.: 20 (up 22% since March 22. March 22 was 54,052 daily new cases, March 30: 66,064)
--- highest 4 U.S. states --
Michigan: 54
New York: 51
New Jersey: 50
Connecticut: 38

EUROPE
Poland: 75
France: 58
Turkey: 38 (since BMPM mentioned it)
Italy: 33
Germany: 20
U.K.: 7

SOUTH AMERICA
Uruguay: 68
Brazil: 36
Chile: 35
Argentina: 23

Just for some perspective and a few sample countries of interest, and/or ones that have high new infection rates.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Turkey and Poland are really high now too.

I read Worldometers and France has been over 40,000 a lot lately so I was expecting this. The UK variant is very contagious. I expect the US to repeat the fiasco (at least the GQP led states).

[DFW]

3. It was a royal mess-up from start to finish yesterday

But I was able to get in and out of Paris with minimal hassle. The last thing I need right now would be to find myself in Paris and be told there was no way outta there for three weeks.