Covid-19: Monaco advances its curfew to 7 p.m.

 

From Monday January 11, the Principality of Monaco will have to respect a curfew set at 7 p.m. Until now, Monegasques could no longer go out after 8 p.m., except for an exemption until 10 p.m. in the event of dinner at a restaurant for residents, workers or people staying on the Rock. But the government announced that restaurants also had to close their doors at night because of epidemic signals which “turned orange”.

Saturday, the principality, where the sales have been taking place for a week, also regulated access to its territory, with a restriction of entries for non-residents who cannot justify an overriding reason to enter.

Record of Covid-19 contamination in Monaco

These measures were announced as Monaco reached a record 40 new cases of Covid-19 on Thursday and an incidence rate of 410 positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants. To date, 26 people are hospitalized there, including 8 in intensive care.

In total, since the start of the epidemic, more than a thousand people have been affected by the coronavirus in Monaco, leading to the death of 5 residents for a territory which has around 38,000.

At the end of December, the mayor (LR) of Nice Christian Estrosi called on the French Prime Minister Jean Castex to “ask his Monegasque counterpart for the same health measures as France”. “Otherwise, we ask that travel with the principality be limited to professional justifications”, added the elected.

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