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France has announced to lift a number of coronavirus restrictions. This includes opening of the cafes and restaurants across France and travel to other European countries to be allowed.
French President Emmanuel Macron announced that people will also be able to visit family members in retirement homes, which have been hit particularly hard by the Covid-19 outbreak. Germany, Belgium, Croatia and Switzerland have decided to fully opened borders with EU countries.
Travellers from the UK will be able to visit them without quarantine or restrictions on arrival. However, those travelling to France from the UK or Spain face a two-week isolation period.
In his address via television on Sunday, Macron said the country had won its first victory but warned the virus could return. This is what the New Zealand also feels that has recently lifted restrictions after the country reported none active cases on the land.
“As soon as tomorrow we will be able to turn the page on this first chapter across all our territory,” Macron said.
Restaurants, hotels and cafés were allowed to reopen in many parts of France earlier this month – provided distancing rules were observed. Macron confirmed that this would also happen in the Paris region, which recorded the highest number of cases in the country. He also said that schools would reopen from 22 June – except for high schools.
Macron added, mass gatherings would need to remain tightly controlled because they were the main occasions for spreading the virus. All of mainland France will now be in the green zone virus alert level while the overseas territories of Mayotte and French Guiana will remain at the orange alert level. More than 29,400 people have died of coronavirus in France, and the country has had almost 194,000 confirmed cases.
