Covid-19: Extension of the wearing of masks in Paris and quarantine in the United Kingdom

After the resurgence of the coronavirus epidemic in France, Great Britain announced Thursday that it was imposing a 14-day quarantine, starting Saturday, August 15 at 4:00 a.m. (5 a.m., Paris time), at people arriving from France, the Netherlands, Malta, Monaco, Aruba Islands and Turks and Caicos, as well as countries where they have traveled or transited, which are not in the exemption lists, since they have left this country.

Following the announcement of this quarantine, hundreds of thousands of people must return to their countries urgently. There were 500,000 British travelers on French soil, some of whom shortened their stay to avoid the fortnight announced Thursday by the British government and 160,000 French holidaymakers who were to return to France.

In the space of 2 days, the Eurotunnel shuttles were fully booked and in France, the Calais ferry companies increased the number of passengers: capacities were increased from 500 to 750 passengers per ferry, the Danish company DFDS having already doubled its reservations.

Regretting the British decision, France announced a similar measure under reciprocity while hoping for a quick return to normal.

During the quarantine, all travelers coming from France will have to declare a place of self-containment in the United Kingdom, in which they will have to keep isolated for 2 weeks.

If the place of confinement (hotels, family or friends) does not meet the required conditions, the British government will organize confinement in a suitable establishment. Travel by your own means (for example by car) to the place of containment should be preferred.

Any breach of this mandatory measure, which can be verified, is punishable by a fine of between 1000 and 3200 GBP (from 1100 € to 3500 €).

Before entering the UK (48 hours prior to arrival), travelers must complete a form with their contacts, address of residence or stay, and travel information (This is done on the UK government website) . However, the PCR screening test is not compulsory for travel between France and the United Kingdom.

Anyone entering the UK must download the NHS Covid-19 app and use it for the duration of their stay.

For any trip to Great Britain for a period of less than 14 days (quarantine), you must remain confined during the entire stay. To leave, it is not necessary to use public transport to reach the airport or the train station.

Conditions to follow during quarantine:

Do not go to his place of work
Do not attend school
Do not use public transport or taxis
Do not receive visitors including friends and family unless their help is essential.
Do not go out to shop if it can be done by others

Persons exempted from containment measures upon entering British territory:

Road carriers and freight carriers
Individuals practicing a medical profession, and who work to fight the Covid-19 epidemic.
Anyone traveling within the Common Travel Space (UK, Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man).
Seasonal workers in agriculture.

Once the fortnight is over, the UK government’s instructions on social distancing measures will need to be followed.

For people coming from the United Kingdom to France, the reciprocity measure concerning the British quarantine will be applied, they will also have to follow the social distancing measures and wear the mask in closed environments (hotels, places of worship, libraries, restaurants and bars., public transport …) and even outside in many large cities (Paris, Lille, Marseille …).

There is a general deterioration in indicators in France. The number of people diagnosed positive for Covid-19 increased by 2,846 new cases against 2,669 on Thursday, according to the latest report published on Friday. Paris and the Bouches-du-Rhône have been in the red zone since Friday August 14th.

In order to avoid the spread, the obligation to wear a mask in Paris has been extended to new districts such as the Champs-Elysées, the Champs de Mars, the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre district, Ile St Louis and Ile de la Cité, from Saturday morning August 15. The Paris police prefect said in the process that it « could become mandatory throughout the capital if the epidemiological situation were to deteriorate again. There are currently around thirty zones in all the districts, in entire neighborhoods for some and no longer just a few streets and arteries.

Gatherings and demonstrations of more than 10 people which will not guarantee the respect of the barrier measures will be prohibited; reinforcement of controls in areas and places open to the public, including bars, restaurants and terraces, as well as in public transport.

Areas where wearing a mask is mandatory:

All of the low quays, the banks of the Seine accessible to pedestrians and gentle circulation
both right bank and left bank.
Right bank: from quai de Bercy (12th) to quai Louis Blériot (16th)
Left bank: from quai d´Ivry (13th) to quai d’Ussy-les-Moulineaux (15th)

For the Center
Paris Center bounded by rue rue Saint Florentin, rue Richepance, boulevard de la Madeleine, boulevard des
Capucines, boulevard des Italiens, boulevard Montmartre, boulevard Poissonnière, boulevard
Good news, boulevard Saint Denis, boulevard Saint Martin, Place de la République,
Boulevard du Temple, Boulevard des Filles du Calvaire, Boulevard Beaumarchais, Place de la
Bastille, boulevard Bourdon, Quai Henri IV, Pont de Sully, Quai de Béthune, Quai d´Orléans, Pont
Saint Louis, Quai de l’archchevêché, Quai du Marché Neuf, Quai des Orfèvres, Pont Neuf, Quai du
Louvre, Quai des Tuileries, Place de la Concorde (excluded).

For the 8th arrondissement
– Champs-Elysées district bounded by avenue des Champs-Élysées, rue de Berri,
rue de Ponthieu, avenue Matignon to the Champs-Élysées roundabout, avenue
Montaigne, rue François 1er (excluded), avenue Georges V, avenue des Champs-Élysées, rue
de Presbourg, rue de Tilsit.

– Gare Saint-Lazare: Rue Saint Lazare, Place Gabriel Péri, Rue de Rome, Boulevard des
Batignolles, Place de Clichy.

For the 9th arrondissement
– Haut-Caumartin-Clichy district bordered by rue Saint Lazare Place d´Estienne d´Orves,
rue de Clichy, Place de Clichy, Rue d’Amsterdam.
– Pigalle / Trudaine: bounded by Place Pigalle, boulevard de Clichy, Boulevard de
Rochechouart, rue de Rochecouart, rue Cadet, rue du Faubourg Montmartre, rue Notre Dame de
Lorette, rue Pigalle.

For the 16th arrondissement
– Muette / Chaillot district: bounded by avenue du Président Kennedy, rue de Boulainvilliers,
avenue Paul Doumer, Place du Trocadéro, Avenue du President Wilson, avenue Albert de Mun,
avenue de New-York, Place de Varsovie, avenue du President Kennedy.
– Auteuil district bounded by the rue d’Auteuil, the Place de l’Eglise d´Auteuil, the rue hardon
Lagache, larue Molitor, bd Exelmans to rue d’Auteuil.

For the 17th arrondissement
– Batignolles district bounded by avenue de Saint Ouen, avenue de Clichy, Place de
Clichy, boulevard des Batignolles, Place Goubaux, Rue de Lévis, rue Legendre, rue Boursault,
Place Charles Fillion, rue Cardinet, avenue de Clichy, rue Guy Môquet.
– Ternes: bounded by Place des Ternes, avenue des ternes, boulevard Gouvion, boulevard
Pershing Saint Cyr, avenue de Coucelles, avenue de Wagram

For the 10th arrondissement
– Strasbourg Château d´eau district: rue du 08 mai 1945, Boulevard de Strasbourg, boulevard
de Magenta, Place de la République, boulevard Saint-Denis, Porte Saint-Denis, Rue du Faubourg
Saint-Denis, Rue du 08 May 1945.
– Rue du Faubourg St Denis district: boulevard de la Chapelle, rue du Château Landon, rue
Lafayette, rue de Dunkerque, rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis, boulevard de la Chapelle.
– Canal St Martin district: rue Lafayette, Quai de Valmy, rue Lucien Sampaix, rue des
Vinegar makers, rue de Lancry, rue Yves Toudic, rue du Faubourg du Temple, quai de Jemmapes, rue
Alibert, rue Bichat, rue de la Grange aux Belles, rue de l’Hôpital Saint-Louis, quai de Jemmapes,
boulevard de la Villette, rue Lafayette.

For the 11th arrondissement
– Bastille district: bounded by Place de la Bastille, rue du Faubourg Saint Antoine,
Avenue Ledru Rollin, Boulevard Voltaire, Rue Sedaine and Boulevard Richard Lenoir.
– Houdin-Oberkampf-Roquette district: bounded by the rue du Faubourg du Temple, Place de
the Republic, avenue de la République, rue Saint Maur, rue de la Roquette, Boulevard de
Ménilmontant, boulevard de Belleville.

For the 12th arrondissement
– Gare de Lyon district:
Sector between: Bd Diderot, rue J. Bouton, rue Paul Henri Grauwin, place Rutebeuf, rue
Chrétien de Troyes, rue de Rambouillet and rue de Bercy
– Aligre district:
Sector between: rue de Cotte, rue de Charenton, rue d’Aligre, place d’Aligre, rue d’Aligre,
rue Crozatier.
– Bercy district:
Sector between: rue J. Kessel, quai de Bercy, avenue des Terroirs de France and rue Baron
The Roy
For the 18th arrondissement
– « Place Clichy / Montmartre / Barbés / Goutte d’Or / Château-Rouge » district: bounded by
Place Clichy, boulevard de Clichy, boulevard Rochechouart, boulevard de la Chapelle, rue Marx
Dormoy, Place de la Chapelle, rue Pajol, Place Herbert,, rue des Roses, rue de la Chapelle, rue
Ordener, rue de Clignancourt, rue Custine, rue Caulaincourt.
For the 19th arrondissement
– Quartier Secrétan delimited Place du Colonel Fabien, Boulevard de la Villette, avenue Sécrétan,
avenue Mathurin Moreau.
– Parc de la Villette delimited by avenue Jean Jaures, boulevard Serurier and avenue Corentin Cariou,
Mac Donald Boulevard.

– Bassin de la Villette / Canal de l’Ourcq bordered by Place de la Bataille de Stalingrad, Quai de
Seine, Quai de l’Oise, Quai de Metz, rue Mille, avenue Jean Jaurès.
Parc de la Butte du chapeau rouge delimited by Boulevard d’Algérie, Boulevard Serurier, rue
Alphonse Aulard and avenue de la Porte Brunet.
– Place des Fêtes delimited by Place des Fêtes, rue Thuliez, Rue Ribière, Rue Thierry, Rue
Petittot.
For the 20th arrondissement
– Bas-Belleville district: rue de Belleville – rue olivier Métra – Rue de Pixéricourt, rue de
Ménilmontant – rue sorbier – rue des Panoyaux – boulevard de Ménilmontant, boulevard de
Beautiful city.
– Porte de Montreuil- Porte de Bagnolet: Place de la Porte de Montreuil, avenue du professor
André Lemierre, rue Lucien Lambeau, rue Louis Lumière, avenue de la Porte de Bagnolet,, Place
from Porte de Bagnolet, rue de Bagnolet, rue des Pyrénées, rue d’Avron to rue de
Buzenval and rue d’Avron from rue de Buzenval to rue de la Volga, rue Charles et Robert,
Place de la Porte de Montreuil.

For the 5th and 6th arrondissement
– the « extended » Lower Latin Quarter: bounded by rue des Saints-Pères, rue de Sèvres, rue du
Vieux Colombier, rue Saint Sulpice, carrefour de l’Odéon, bd St-Germain, Quai de la Tournelle,
Quai de Montebello, Quai des Grands-Augustins, Quai de Conti, Quai Malaquais
– Contrescarpe sector: bounded by rue Monge, rue Claude Bernard, rue d’Ulm, rue de l’Estrapade,
Thouin, Rollin.
For the 7th arrondissement
– Champ de Mars – Eiffel Tower bounded by the quai Branly, including the Ièna bridge, avenue de la
Bourdonnais, rue de la Motte-Picquet, place Joffre and avenue de Suffren.
– 7th part of the Ecole Militaire / Saxe perimeter bounded by avenue de Saxe, rue de
Sèvres, rue de la Sizeranne, rue Masseran, avenue Duquesne.
– The shopping area which includes rue Cler, bounded by avenue Bosquet, rue Saint
Dominique, boulevard de la Tour-Maubourg and avenue de la Motte-Picquet.
For the 13th arrondissement
– The Butte aux Cailles sector delimited by rue de Tolbiac, rue Barrault, boulevard
Auguste Blanqui, rue Bobillot and rue Moulin des Prés
– The Asian district bounded by avenue de Choisy, avenue d’Ivry and boulevard Masséna
– The BNF sector: Quai Panhard et Levassor / Quai François Mauriac / Quai de la Gare / bd
Vincent Auriol / Avenue de France / Place Farhat Hached / bd du Général d’Armée Jean Simon /
Station gate
For the 14th arrondissement
– The Porte de Vanves sector: bounded by bd Brun, avenue de la Porte de Chatillon,
bd Adolphe Pinard and avenue Julia Bartet.
– The Porte d’Orléans sector: bounded by avenue de la Porte de Montrouge, boulevard
Romain Rolland, rue Emile Faguet, bd Brune and bd Jourdan.
– The Parc Montsouris district (high traffic): bounded by Bd Jourdan, by the street
Nansouty, avenue Reille and rue Gazan
– The Gergovie sector: bounded by rue d’Alésia, rue Vercingétorix, rue Alain, rue du cdt
Mouchotte (Gare Montparnasse), avenue du Maine, rue Froideveaux, avenue du Général
Leclerc, rue Daguerre, avenue du Maine, rue Maison Dieu, rue Asseline, rue Didot.

For the 15th arrondissement
– Western sector: perimeter delimited by Place Balard, Rue Leblanc from Place Balard,
rue du Professeur Florian Delbarre to Place du Moulin de Javel, the banks of the Seine
to Boulevard de Grenelle, Boulevard de Grenelle to Rue du Commerce, Rue du
Trade to Place Etienne Pernet, Avenue Félix Faure from Place Etienne Pernet
to rue de la Convention, rue de la Convention to rue Siant Charles, rue Saint
Charles to rue Balard, rue Balard to place Balard
– Gare Montparnasse sector: perimeter delimited by the place du 18 Juin 1940, rue du
Departure, Raoul Dautry square and arrival street (ie the forecourt of Montparnasse station).
– 15th part of the Ecole Militaire / Saxony perimeter bounded by part of the avenue de
suren, rue de Sèvres, avenue de Saxe, Place de Fontenoy

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