PARIS (FRANCE) – Paris, including the Ile-de-France area around the capital, will once again come under an evening curfew to stem the spread of the pandemic, said government spokesman Gabriel Attal on Tuesday.
The curfew starts at 9 pm and it is on top of the new national lockdown declared by President Emmanuel Macron last week.
“We are going to reinstate a curfew on Paris, and perhaps the Ile-de-France. The Interior Ministry will specify the details later in the day and an edict will be issued,” Attal told BFM TV.
The country reported a record 52,518 new coronavirus cases on Monday and the number of patients in hospitals climbed by more than 1,000 for the fourth time in eight days as the pandemic displays no signs of abating.
The number of fatalities related to the virus went up by 416 to 37,435, compared with an increase of 231 on Sunday.
According to Health Minister Olivier Veran, one Paris resident is getting infected every 30 seconds while a Parisian is admitted to hospital with the virus infection every 15 minutes.