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Paris and its surrounding area, along with 15 other French departments, will go into a new “lockdown” from midnight Friday for four weeks. But this is really ‘lockdown lite’ and there’s a sense of relief among Parisians, who were fearing being confined to their homes every weekend in a repeat of last year’s strict three-month lockdown, and have got off relatively lightly.
The main constraints in the new rules announced by Prime Minister Jean Castex last evening, are that non-essential shops must close and that people are not allowed to travel out of their home area without an “imperative reason”.
Shattock also said that the vaccine rollout would not necessarily prevent outbreaks or spreading, but rather was designed to prevent hospitalisation:
A study has warned that vaccinations alone are unlikely to contain #COVID19 infections in the UK.@imperialcollege professor Robin Shattock says the report is "not definitive" and the main focus of the rollout is to stop people from being hospitalised.https://t.co/hKiKHZouOz pic.twitter.com/PcfGbTJdx6
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