[46], On 8 February 2020, then-Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn confirmed five new cases which originated from a group of people who were on a holiday in Les Contamines-Montjoie, Haute-Savoie. [102][103] After several days, an agreement allowing a few construction sites to reopen was signed.[104]. [260][261], On 30 March 2020, hospitals reported that there had been two dozen cases with three deaths of individuals who were suspected of self-medication with Plaquenil – a brand name for hydroxychloroquine. [99] On 17 March 2020, the Direction générale de la Santé (DGS) asked Santé publique France to buy urgently 1,1 million of FFP2 masks.[100]. The first five confirmed cases were all individuals who had recently arrived from China. [170] Three family members were hospitalised in Nancy, a father and his son, aged 50 and 23, and the girl-friend of the 50-year-old patient, all from the department of Aisne. In such a case between 30,000 and 100,000 more ICU beds would be required in the hospitals. [25] In President Emmanuel Macron's second address to the nation on the pandemic on 16 March 2020, he announced the suspension of all reforms, notably those of pensions. [12], On 3 March 2020, seven participants in the evangelical rally – including five members of a local family and a general practitioner from Bernwiller – had tested positive for the virus. On March 16, the French government announced that France will go under complete lockdown for 15 days due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The order was subsequently extended for another 15 days. [203] On 31 March 2020, the first person died of COVID-19. In Aisne and Pas-de-Calais, spared by the epidemic until 1 March, the authorities confirmed the presence of patients with COVID-19, except the Nord where hospitalisations without local infections had taken place. The total number of confirmed cases was 1,048,075, with an increase of 42,032, the highest daily rise in a 24-hour period. Mr Attal said that this stage of the reopening may be carried out geographically, based on where the pandemic is most under control. [113] During the national lockdown, domestic travel was banned and a nationwide curfew from 7pm-6am remained in place. [236], From 18 April 2020, suburbs near Paris saw several nights of violent clashes over police treatment of ethnic minorities in the banlieues during the coronavirus lockdown. At Home. [81] On 6 March 2020, with 81 cases that had been detected in the previous 24 hours in Mulhouse, the departmental prefect declared that the means were no longer sufficient to systematically screen all suspected cases; only the most serious patients were to be hospitalised. [84] These evacuees were quarantined in a holiday camp in Carry-le-Rouet. [72], A religious week in Mulhouse that took place from 17 to 24 February 2020 was involved in the rapid spread of the virus to eastern France and beyond. Masks made mandatory in an extended range of public places. [18] On 2 May 2020, Health Minister Olivier Véran announced that the government would seek to extend the health emergency period until 24 July 2020. [12][74] The source of the initial infection has not been determined; furthermore, as different attendees were welcomed each day, and due to the absence of any attendance register, epidemiological followup subsequent to the discovery of attendees who tested positive was rendered impossible. [12], A Radio France investigation identified that one nurse who had attended the event was the origin of a subsequent cluster in Strasbourg at her workplace at the Strasbourg University Hospitals involving some 250 hospital colleagues. Cinq nouveaux cas de coronavirus à Dijon", "En direct. [70], On 28 February 2020, one new case was confirmed, a 23-year-old fashion student from Nice who had recently returned from Milan. [5][6] A Chinese tourist who was admitted to hospital in Paris on 28 January 2020, died on 14 February 2020, making it the first COVID-19 death in France as well as the first COVID-19 death outside Asia. Map of positives tests by regions as of 9 May 2021, December 2019–March 2020: First cases to lockdown, Recoveries are not counted by official sources; the reported numbers correspond to cases. Trois cas avérés hospitalisés au CHU d'Angers", "Un premier cas de coronavirus confirmé dans les Alpes-Maritimes", "Trois nouveaux malades du coronavirus ce samedi dans les Alpes-Maritime", "Coronavirus : un enfant de trois ans contaminé à Nice, le point sur la situation", "Coronavirus: un premier cas de contamination détecté à Monaco et transféré au CHU de Nice", "Confinement : Nice, Mulhouse, Perpignan... 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Masks were made compulsory on public transport. After about 40 crew members aboard the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle showed symptoms, the ship cut short its mission and returned to its home port of Toulon on 12 April 2020, 11 days earlier than planned. France has extended a nationwide lockdown to contain the coronavirus beyond 15 April, with stringent measures unlikely to end anytime soon. The French PM said in a speech that the government had decided to extend the country's coronavirus lockdown until April 15. The patient had not travelled abroad which sparked fears that the coronavirus might have been spreading in Europe earlier than leaders had thought. On 15 July 2020, Olivier Véran announced that from 24 July 2020, face coverings would be compulsory in all public indoor spaces and some outdoor public areas such as the Eiffel Tower. Non-essential services can re-open and exercise restrictions relaxed to 3 hours a day within a 20 km radius of one's place of residence. It was set to be rolled out in France earlier this week but was pre-emptively halted by the company due to reports of rare cases of blood clotting in patients in the US. On 28 October 2020, Macron announced on a televised address that France would enter a second nationwide lockdown from 30 October 2020 that would last until at least 1 December 2020. [172], On 25 February 2020, a young woman returned from China was hospitalised in the Bichat–Claude Bernard Hospital, Paris but showed signs of recovery and was out of hospital on 26 February 2020. France is set to lift its partial lockdown on May 3, four weeks after it was introduced. Prefectures given powers to expand mandatory mask-wearing measures. Cafes, bars and restaurants were also allowed to reopen on the same day. However, the 19:00 to 06:00 curfew will remain in place. On 3 May 2020, Yves Cohen, head of resuscitation at the hospital, said that following a retest of the man's December sample, it had come back positive for COVID-19. [208][209] The ministry initially announced that out of 66 personnel tested, 50 were positive. [249] According to the French government, a change of doctrine had occurred upon recommendations from the General Health Directorate in July 2011, the decision was taken then to allow depletion of strategic stocks on the grounds of cost of maintaining the stockpile – including arbitrating the cost of obsolescence. [205], Maina Sage, a French politician representing French Polynesia at the French national assembly, was diagnosed with the first case of COVID-19 in French Polynesia on 11 March 2020. In the week ending 16 August 2020, more than 10,000 case were reported during that week. [210][212] On 18 April 2020, the final count of infected crew members was announced as 1,046 with nearly 50 percent diagnosed as asymptomatic. [citation needed], Police around the country set up road blocks to check those outside their homes had good reason and that their exemption declarations were in order. [230], On 28 September 2020, according to an Amnesty International report French authorities wrongly punished thousands of peaceful protesters under draconian laws in pre and post COVID-19 crackdowns. [214][215][216][217][excessive citations], There was criticism in France the carrier mission was not interrupted after the first cases were detected,[218] and rumours that the carrier had asked permission to interrupt its mission in mid March during its stopover in Brest, which had been refused. The increase in cases compared to data of the previous day is an aggregation of additional data from 13th May, previously not taken into account. [189][190], On 2 March 2020, four people were hospitalised at the Angers University Hospital for cases of coronavirus. [11] Five returnees from the Mulhouse rally were confirmed in French Guiana on 4 March 2020. He was working for a contractor of Charles de Gaulle Airport. [105], On 15 October 2020, France became the first country in Europe to record more than 30,000 cases in a day, with 30,621 cases reported. The first case in Wallis and Futuna was reported on 16 October 2020. [7] The following day, his 50-year-old daughter tested positive and was admitted to the same hospital. The timeline for these new restrictions has been set at four weeks, with a proposed end date of May 2 nd. The Ministry of Armed Forces reported infections on board one of its ships on 8 April 2020. These four, all British nationals, three from the first group of Les Contamines-Montjoie and a fourth case which was discovered later, underwent quarantine at the hospital. On 22 June 2020, Cinemas, holiday centres, sports halls for group sports, all crèches, schools, and collèges (middle school) were allowed to reopen in what was the third stage of reopening the economy. Most of the requirements of these measures expired on 11 May 2020 with the expiration of the general stay-at-home order however new requirements subsequently came into effect limiting general travel to a range of 100 km from one's residence without a permit. [262], Raoult later resigned from the committee, and defended chloroquine as a drug that has been safely used for 80 years. The increase caused France to enter a second nationwide lockdown on 28 October 2020. Some positive patients were counted twice, this is no longer the case, therefore the decrease in cases compared to data of the previous day. [193] One day later three new cases were hospitalised, two French vacationers returned from a risk zone and an Italian tourist. Dan Mangan @_DanMangan. Majority of restrictions lifted, although a ban on gatherings of more than 5000 people remained, and nightclubs stayed closed, and masks remained obligatory on public transport. The following day, the prime minister ordered the closure of all non-essential public places, including restaurants, cafés, cinemas and nightclubs, effective from that midnight. Two others cases identified in the Bas-Rhin, a 49-year-old man and his 14-year-old son, had been in contact with a person from the Oise hospitalised in Amiens. [156], On 2 March 2020, an 89-year-old woman from Nyons was treated at Valréas hospital in the Enclave of the Popes in Vaucluse and tested COVID-19 positive. On 13 March 2020, the Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe announced the closure of all pubs, restaurants, cinemas and nightclubs. Some days before, on 26 February, a man died overnight after being rushed to a Paris hospital from Creil where he was hospitalised for 6 days in ICU in serious condition, bringing the total death toll in the country to two at that time. [196], On 22 March 2020, the Alpes-Maritimes prefecture issued a decree putting into place a curfew from 10 pm to 5 am affecting cities of more than 10,000 residents and all towns on the Mediterranean coast until 31 March 2020. [174][175] On the same day, Hôpital Tenon [fr], which had received a patient from the Oise before he had been diagnosed, announced that it had been directly affected by the coronavirus with three infected medical personnel. [221], In a televised statement on 12 March 2020, President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron decreed the closure of nurseries, schools, colleges, high schools and universities. Closure of most public establishments. [19] Several mayors opposed the 11 May 2020 lifting of the lockdown, which had been announced by the president a few weeks earlier in a televised address to the nation,[17] saying it was premature. Five people were arrested;[240] two men were charged with attempted murder, two others with non-assistance to a person in danger and a fifth with attempting to hide a suspect. On 3 July 2020, Philippe resigned as Prime Minister and was replaced by Jean Castex. News Coronavirus: France announces second lockdown. Mr Attal also confirmed that Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccination will start being rolled out in France from Saturday (April 24). Apart from the Petite Couronne,[267] cases have been detected either by a late discovery[clarification needed] or by a local infection in the following departments: Gironde,[268] Haute-Savoie,[54] Bas-Rhin,[66] Val-d'Oise,[175] Hérault,[183] Finistère,[165] Lyon Metropolis,[153] Côte-d'Or,[160] Alpes-Maritimes,[193] Seine-Maritime,[179] Loire-Atlantique,[269] Ain,[270] Landes,[72] Charente-Maritime,[271] Mayenne,[192] Ille-et-Vilaine,[272] Morbihan,[163] Haut-Rhin,[170] Eure,[180] Sarthe,[191] Gard,[187] Drôme,[157] Saône-et-Loire,[162] all the departments of the region Hauts-de-France, except the Nord,[273] and in the overseas territories of Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin. This measure has already been announced for travellers coming from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, South Africa and French Guiana. [20], From August 2020, there was an increase in the rate of infection and on 10 October 2020, France set a record number of new infections in a 24-hour period in Europe with 26,896 recorded. Coronavirus : le château fermé à partir du samedi 14 mars", World news story French personal travel waiver certificate, Man in France jailed for flouting confinement rules, 500.000 amendes pour non-respect du confinement, "France: Thousands of protesters wrongly punished under draconian laws in pre and post COVID-19 crackdown", "Coronavirus. [12] Even President Emmanuel Macron had spent several hours electioneering on 18 February 2020 in the Bourtzwiller district close to the church. Deaths per 100,000 residents by department up to July 2020. [42] The death of the 80-year-old on 14 February 2020 marked the first death from COVID-19 outside of Asia. The next day, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe banned gatherings of more than 100 people, not including public transport. May 19: Curfew moves from 19:00 to 21:00. Cohen said it was too early to know if the man had been France's "patient zero". Covid-19 : le service de réanimation de l'hôpital de Creil, où a été hospitalisé le patient décédé, ferme pendant 14 jours", "France reports second coronavirus death, Italian link in another case", "France reports first citizen to die from coronavirus as three new cases confirmed", "Santé. In Alsace, a Molsheim couple was hospitalised. [52], In late February 2020, multiple cases appeared in France, notably within three new clusters, in Oise,[53] Haute-Savoie,[54] and Morbihan. Coronavirus: Macron declares second national lockdown in France. [177], Despite the coronavirus pandemic a substantial International Women's Day march occurred in Paris on 8 March 2020. The source of the infection remains unknown, as the last port of call had been Brest from 13 to 15 March. [88] A third repatriation of 38 French occurred on 8 February 2020 under the auspices of the British government. This percentage reflects previously unreported data from preceding days as well as data of the current day. From Saturday, April 3, the partial lockdown introduced in March will be extended across all of France. On 20 March 2020, the President of the federation replied in an open letter that what the Minister said was "scandalous". What could France’s traffic light plan mean for summer travel abroad? However, the government kept insisting that they would not impose a second nation-wide lockdown. [222] Employees were encouraged to practise teleworking where possible. President Macron is expected to announce the reopening of the currently closed public establishments himself, but no date has yet been set for this. [207], A couple from the French part of Saint Martin island was diagnosed with COVID-19 on 1 March 2020. On 29 April, President Macron announced dates for the easing of restrictions from the third national lockdown: Curfew hours shifted nationally to between 7pm and 6am every day. Demonstrations that abide by social distancing guidelines are permitted. Employees in sectors of activity related to restaurants, culture and tourism, which remain subject to forced closure, continue to receive 100% state indemnity. Coronavirus : un habitant du Pays de Gex infecté sans gravité et hospitalisé à Lausanne", "Coronavirus : plusieurs cas confirmés dans l'Ain, à Divonne-les-Bains et Ferney-Voltaire, sans gravité", "Un premier cas de coronavirus dans la Drôme, une Nyonsaise de 89 ans", "Coronavirus Covid-19 : quatre nouveaux cas en Haute-Savoie dont trois liés au cluster de la Balme-de-Sillingy", "Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. the … – announced that only four people remained infected in France. During August 2020, cases began to rise again. 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