{"id":96781,"date":"2020-10-15T12:56:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T04:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=96781"},"modified":"2020-10-15T12:56:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T04:56:18","slug":"france-imposes-curfew-to-stem-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=96781","title":{"rendered":"France imposes curfew to stem virus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PARIS, Oct 15 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday announced that nightly curfew will be imposed in Paris and other cities, as a state of emergency has been declared in the country to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an interview broadcast on national television, Macron said the curfew, effective from Saturday, will be imposed from 9pm&nbsp;to 6am in Ile-de-France region, where the capital Paris is located, and eight other cities, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report said in addition to Paris and the region surrounding it, the new measures also targeted the cities of Lille, Grenoble, Lyon, Aix-Marseille, Montpellier, Rouen, Saint-Etienne, and Toulouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The measures are the latest imposed by the president to help stem the spread of the coronavirus, in what has been deemed by health officials as a second wave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>France&#8217;s Health Ministry on Wednesday reported 22,591 new COVID-19 infections, with cases now totaling 779,063. The death toll in the country reached 33,037 as 104 new fatalities were reported over the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macron also called for limiting gatherings to no more than six people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said those receiving the work welfare benefit and housing aid will receive \u20ac100 to \u20ac150 per child over the next six weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS, Oct 15 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday announced that nightly curfew will be imposed in Paris and other cities, as a state of emergency has been declared in the country to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. In an interview broadcast on national television, Macron said the curfew, effective from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":96782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209,296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96781"}],"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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}