Foreign tourists with a “health pass” will be allowed back into France from 9 June, under Macron’s grand Covid re-opening plan. Restaurant and café terraces, cinemas, theatres etc will re-open (with restrictions on numbers) from 19 May.
1/6
Macron’s four-stage plan to “re-open” France, starting on Monday, has been leaked by Le Parisien, Le Point magazine and others. It aways seemed unlikely that his interview with regional papers, conducted yesterday, would remain secret until published tomorrow morning.
2/6
The later stages, according to Le Point, may be delayed in those départements where the incidence rate remains over 400 per 100,000 over 7 days. As things stand that would delay openings in au moins the Paris and Marseilles area.
3/6
The four stages are:

ONE 3 May (as already announced).
End of the 10k roaming limit and end of the requirement to have a good reason to leave home. Lycée and college classes resume with half usual numbers per class.
4/6
TWO 19 May
The present 7pm to 6am curfew will be relaxed to 9pm - 6am. Café, restaurant terraces can open with max 6 per table. All shops, theatres, cinemas, museums etc can open with limits on numbers.
5/6
THREE 9 June
Curfew delayed until 11pm. Indoor cafes/restos open. A health pass (proof of vaccination or negative test) will allow access to events up to 5,000 people and admit foreign visitors.

FOUR 30 June
Curfew ends.

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1 May
Weekly French vaccination thread.
It has been a good week – the best yet.
France broke its record on each of the last 2 days – 545,000 shots on Thurs and 549,000 yesterday – or almost 1.1m shots in 2 days.
In 7 days, 2.8m doses were given, after 2.5m a week for 2 weeks. 1/11 Image
All the same, the Fr. government wants – and needs – to go faster to hit its medically and politically important targets of 20m first jabs by 15 May and 30m by 15 June. France’s problem has changed: no longer a shortage of doses but a shortage of people willing to be dosed. 2/11
There were over 200,000 vacant slots at the start of the week, some with 10 jabs each. This is partly because of resistance to AstraZeneca but also because of general French vax-scepticism. The problem is NOT huge. By my calculation 86% of doses had been used by this weekend 3/11
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28 Apr
Weekly French Covid thread
All stats in the last week moved in the right direction, some more than others. That’s the 1st time that has happened for 2 months. Daily average of cases was 27,857 – a fall of 16.6%. Deaths were down; incidence rate down; acute care slightly down 1/11
President Macron will appear on TV soon – maybe Sun or Mon, probably an interview, not a formal address – to give details on easing of social restrictions from mid-May. He was in cautious mood when he spoke to mayors on Tues. He said curfews will last in some form until June 2/11
PM Jean Castex may give more clues this afternoon. Although the 3rd wave of C19 is receding slowly, there are causes for anxiety. The South African variant is spreading in greater Paris. The vax roll-out is doing pretty well but there are many slots untaken (not only for AZ) 3/11
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21 Apr
The vax French rollout continues apace - 418,000 shots yesterday. First jabs have now almost reached 13m but the need for 2nd jabs is slowing them a little. Unless it speeds up, France will fall just short of its 20m 1st jabs target for 15 May. 6/10

Epidemiologists warn that there will be no rapid descent from the 3rd wave, unlike the collapse of the 1st wave a year ago. The official “alert level” is 5,000 new cases a day. The present level is over 30,000. With schools re-opening next week, no rapid change is expected. 7/10
In those circumstances can Macron keep his conditional promise to ease restrictions – opening restaurant terraces etc – in just over 3 weeks’ time? The political pressure to do so (with presidential elections exactly a year away) is enormous. But he can’t afford a mistake. 8/10
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21 Apr
Weekly French Covid thread
The UK-variant-led 3rd wave of Covid in France seems to have crested – or reached a high plateau. Figures are no longer rising; nor are they falling v. fast.
Macron’s dilemma. Can he go ahead with the easing of restrictions promised for mid-May? 1/10
The health defence council is meeting this morning. Health minister Oliver Véran favours lifting or easing the present “lockdown lite” region by region. The figures vary hugely - from an incidence rate in the 500’s/600’s in the Paris area to only 89.5 in W. Brittany. 2/10
Overall, the virus is subsiding slowly – v. slowly in Paris area, the black spot
The national incidence rate - cases per 100,000 people/ 7 days – is 337.4. It was 342.4 last week and 405 a week earlier. Seine Saint Denis has eased from 680. 2 to 656.5. Paris 516.9 to 512.4
3/10
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17 Apr
Weekly French vaccination thread.
Your booster dose of good news…or reasonably good news, with some annoying worries and problems.
The French vaccine roll-out has accelerated again. Almost 2.5m 1st and 2nd doses were given in 7 days, compared to just under 2m last week. 1/ 12
On Thursday night France exceeded its 10m first doses target for 15 April by almost 2m.
A comparison with the UK is interesting.
Current 7 day averages of 1st and 2nd jabs given in 24 hours:
UK: 437,317.
France: 357,120.
2/12
It’s not a contest but it was made so by much of the UK media
Mail/Express etc please note France/EU are now vaxxing at a high rate. Why? Initial problems have been resolved/Pfizer doses are plentiful
Why is UK slower than it was? AZ is failing UK just as it failed the EU. 3/12
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14 Apr
Weekly French Covid thread
There is good news on the key stats which suggest that the third wave has reached a plateau and may have peaked. On the other had France is about to pass – today or tomorrow – the grim milestone of 100,000 official C19 deaths since March last year 1/10
Other bad news. There are growing fears about the possible impact of the Brazilian variant which appears to be more aggressive and more damaging to younger people. As things stand the Braz. AND SA variants are 4.2% of French cases. Flights from Brazil have been suspended. 2/10
The French vax programme continues to flourish (largely unremarked by UK media). There were 453,689 injections yesterday – a new Tues record – including 309,704 1st shots. The target was 10m 1st jabs by April 15. France was at 11.3m last night and could hit 12m tomorrow.
3/10
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