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October 31st, 2020 
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France and Germany have announced second national lockdowns to try to curb a surge in coronavirus cases and deaths.
President Emmanuel Macron confirmed his country’s widely-expected measures, which will start this Friday and last until 1 December.
The month-long measures will include:
- A ‘stay at home’ order except to exercise for one hour a day, seek medical care or buy essential goods
- Shutting restaurants and bars
- Non-essential shops to close
- A travel ban between regions
- Closing some external borders
- Universities moving to online teaching
Anyone outside their homes will have to carry a document justifying their excursion, which can be checked by police.
The newspaper Le Parisien said the office of the French Prime Minister has confirmed that people will be allowed only up to 1km from their home.
Schools will remain open.
The French president said COVID-19 was circulating more quickly than had been forecast, and that all regions were on high alert.
He added the country, along with its European neighbours, had been “submerged by the rapid acceleration of COVID-19”, and that the second wave was likely to be “harder, more deadly” than the first.
France has recently recorded tens of thousands of coronavirus cases a day. On Wednesday evening, it reported 36,437 new cases, up from 33,417 yesterday.
On Tuesday it confirmed its highest daily fatality figure since April, at 523.
And more than half of the country’s intensive care units are filled with COVID-19 patients.
The alternative approach of seeking herd immunity would mean 400,000 excess deaths, Mr Macron predicted.
The new restrictions follow similar plans laid out hours earlier by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said her nation will enter a four-week lockdown from 2 November.
Germany’s restrictions, which will be reviewed after two weeks.
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