{"id":114752,"date":"2021-02-23T09:55:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T01:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=114752"},"modified":"2021-02-23T09:55:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T01:55:32","slug":"covid-19-french-riviera-to-go-into-weekend-lockdown-as-cases-spreading-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=114752","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: French Riviera to go into weekend lockdown as cases spreading fast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/h-1.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/h-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NICE (France), Feb 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The French Riviera will go into<br>lockdown for the next two weekends to contain Covid-19 which has been<br>spreading faster in the tourist hotspot than elsewhere in France, the<br>region\u2019s top official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Controls at airports and at the land border the southern Alpes-Maritimes<br>region shares with Italy would be tightened over the next two weeks, prefect Bernard Gonzalez said, and stores larger than 5,000 metres square would be closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coastal city of Nice, the region\u2019s capital and France\u2019s fifth-biggest<br>city, has been recording 700 positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants, three<br>times the national average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senior French hospitals official Remi Salomon has described the epidemic<br>as \u201cout of control\u201d in the region and said measures taken in recent weeks<br>have not been sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coastal area affected by the lockdown, stretching from Theoule-sur-Mer<br>to Menton, includes Nice and other famous resorts including Cannes and<br>Antibes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents will be allowed to go out for one hour daily so long as they<br>stay within a radius of five kilometres from their homes during<br>the lockdown which will start at 6 pm on Fridays and end at 6 am on<br>Mondays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>France has avoided imposing a third nationwide lockdown to fight the<br>virus, in contrast with some of its neighbours, in what analysts see as a<br>risky gamble by President Emmanuel Macron to allow the economy to gain some steam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently mainland France has a nightly curfew beginning at 6 pm. The<br>only part of the country with a complete lockdown in place is the Indian<br>Ocean island of Mayotte where the measure has been in effect since Feb<br>5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The curfew has been credited with keeping a lid on infection rates but<br>government spokesman Gabriel Attal said the latest trends were \u201cnot<br>good\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a slow start, France\u2019s vaccination campaign has gained some momentum with more than 2.5 million people receiving a first dose and, of those, over 1.1 million a second dose. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NICE (France), Feb 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The French Riviera will go intolockdown for the next two weekends to contain Covid-19 which has beenspreading faster in the tourist hotspot than elsewhere in France, theregion\u2019s top official said. Controls at airports and at the land border the southern Alpes-Maritimesregion shares with Italy would be tightened over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":114753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114752"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}