Even fewer trains from tonight • Hospital occupation continues
More than 100,000 people demonstrated in France yesterday against the corona policy in the country. About 18,000 people took to the streets in Paris alone.
The protest was prompted by a remark by President Macron earlier this week. In an interview with Le Parisien, he said he wants to thwart unvaccinated people in order to convince them to get a vaccine. “I really want to get on their nerves to the unvaccinated, to the end. That’s the strategy,” he said in the newspaper. Macron’s words sparked a storm of criticism.
Although the vaccination rate in France (90 percent), the number of positive tests has risen sharply in recent weeks. On Wednesday, the country registered a record number of positive tests: more than 330,000.
Sharpen to 2G
There is no lockdown in France; only the nightclubs are closed. However, people on the street in city centers must wear a mouth mask. Furthermore, a 3G policy applies: people who have been vaccinated, recovered from tested negative are allowed to go to the catering industry and cultural institutions such as theaters and museums.
Macron wants to tighten these rules towards a 2G policy. A negative test is then no longer valid for the passing sanitary facilities. It starts to introduce 2G has been approved by parliament this week, next week the Senate will vote above.