French President Emmanuel Macron has decided not to close France for a third time, as the country is still recording 24,000 new infections daily.
From Sunday, France will close its borders to all non-essential travelers outside the European Union. Those traveling within the EU must show a negative coronavirus test before re-entering.
But Macron stopped ordering all businesses to close.
“I have confidence in us. These hours we go through are crucial. Let us do everything in our power to slow down the epidemic together. ” he tweeted on Saturday.
France reported 24,393 additional positive COVID-19 tests on Friday.
A recent poll shows growing frustration over the deployment of vaccines there, and the general belief that another closure is inevitable. As of Saturday, only 1.45 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered. Israel, on the other hand, applied 3.5 million a week earlier.
With Wires