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In France, the government decided to prolong the state of emergency through COVID-19 for two months.
This was stated by Health Minister Olivier Veran, reports "European truth" referring to "Le Fugaro".
Following a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on the coronation crisis, Verana was joined by the Interior Minister Christoph Castaner, who proposed to adopt the new law by which the emergency health situation would be extended until July 24.
Veran said that the abolition of the emergency previously specified term "spend wasted significant efforts imposed by the French people."
"If we have reduced at once on May 11, the efforts we made were all useless," Veran said.
Other proposed measures include travel restrictions and the introduction of a quarantine process for people enter to France from abroad, Corsica and other overseas territories.
"The task of the Government is not to thwart the French traveling-the task of government-not to give the virus to travel," the minister said.
Castaner added that in the proposed events there would be no border restrictions between French districts.
In France in the last day died 166 people with coronait, it is less than the day before when reported 218 deaths. The total number of dead has risen to 24 760.