The city of Paris announced this Saturday (18th) the cancellation of fireworks and concerts that were scheduled to take place in the New Year on Avenue Champs Elysées, postcard of the French capital, to stop the advance of Covid.
“Given the resurgence of the pandemic and new government announcements, the city of Paris regrets having to cancel all the parties planned on the Champs Elysées on December 31,” the municipality told the AFP news agency. “There will be no fireworks and unfortunately the DJs will not be able to play this year.”
By 2020, the city had already canceled all Christmas festivities due to the curfew in place to fight the pandemic.
Over the past week, the French government has reduced the interval between the first vaccination cycle and the booster dose from five to four months, and has also endorsed the vaccination of children between 5 and 11 years old, in order to increase the population’s immunity against Covid.
French authorities have also decided to implement a vaccination passport, which will restrict the access of unvaccinated people to certain spaces. Until then, those who had not been vaccinated but tested negative for the coronavirus were freed from the restrictions.
In addition, France has imposed travel restrictions on British travelers in order to curb contagion by the omicron variant of the coronavirus, which has led to a spike in UK cases – in the last week alone, British authorities reported a 44% increase in Covid’s cases.
France is also facing a high number of cases. On Wednesday (15), the country registered more than 65,000 new infections, the highest daily number since the beginning of this year.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex warned on Friday that the micron “will expand very quickly to the point where it will become the dominant strain from the beginning of 2022”.
Faced with this situation, Germany has classified France, together with Denmark, as “high-risk” contagion zones, and will require, as of Sunday (19), that unvaccinated travelers coming from these countries carry out a period of quarantine, with the possibility of carrying out a test from the fifth day, announced the German Health Surveillance Institute.
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