Mumbai: France said on Wednesday it was ending the obligation to wear masks outside and would lift a 10-day night curfew, as Covid infections fall and the country’s vaccine campaign intensifies.
Prime Minister Jean Castex said the requirement for people to wear masks outside with some exceptions would be removed from Thursday, while an unpopular Covid curfew would be abolished on June 20.
Castex said the curfew would be lifted 10 days earlier than the initially scheduled time of 11:00 pm. As the number of coronavirus infections continues to decline.
“The health situation in our country is improving faster than we expected,” Castex told a news conference after the cabinet meeting.
Masks will still be required in crowded places and stadiums.
The average number of new daily infections fell on Tuesday to 3,200, France’s lowest level since August 2020, and well below the upper limit of 5,000 cases that President Emmanuel Macron set as his target at the end of last year. . was.
The slowdown in the spread of the virus in France has been compared to a new surge in cases across the channel in Britain that has been blamed on the delta version.
After a slow start to its vaccination campaign six months ago, France is rushing to vaccinate as many people as possible to prevent this type of spread in its region.
Castex said the government aimed to have around 35 million people completely vaccinated by the end of the summer, representing a little over half of the population.
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