PARIS — Paris authorities have banned all outdoor sports activities between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. after Parisians took to the streets in numbers over the weekend to enjoy the sunny weather.
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo and police prefect Didier Lallement say Parisians should limit their movement to urgent or indispensable outings amid stringent lockdown measures implemented across the country. Starting Wednesday, Parisians can only exercise outdoors when “street crowd is at its lowest.”
Parisians were previously allowed to exercise outdoors for an hour while carrying a form explaining the reason why they were going out.
France has nearly 9,000 dead and some 100,000 known infections across the country.
At almost a 10% mortality rate, WTF is anyone going outside for in France?
Wow, people are going to go nuts as many if not most Parisian apartments are cramped and the Parisian spring is glorious (April in Paris…). Are people stupid enough to work out with and near others? It’s not like the city lacks for wide open spaces to run or walk. Well, depending on where you live. I used to stay with a friend in the 13th and would run along the Seine to the (then new) Bibliothèque Nationale or to the Jardin des Plantes. But I suppose that if you live closer to the center, it’s tough to find open spaces. Still, since people have to and are allowed to buy essentials, I suppose they can use the walk to and from as an opportunity to work out, perhaps taking a longer route than usual.
A la santé des Parisiens!
smoking?
Trump is sending Paris three cargo planes full of Twister.