Bars and restaurants will be able to reopen their terraces on May 19 (illustration). – M.Libert / 20 Minutes
Cafes, bars and restaurants may well reopen their terraces on May 19 everywhere in France, for tables of six guests, then their rooms on June 9, but they will have to be limited to half of their capacity, to know Monday the services of the Prime Minister.
Professionals hoped that certain territories, with better health indicators than elsewhere, would be exempt from this 50% gauge, which will severely handicap them, while only 40% of these establishments have a terrace, and that foreign tourists, like the business clientele, will not be back this summer.
Increasingly enlarged gauges
As for the stores, they will reopen on May 19 with a gauge of 1 customer for 8 square meters and one for 4 square meters, as of June 9. This gauge should disappear on June 30, said Matignon.
Sports halls, swimming pools and coe, they will reopen for all audiences at 50% on June 9, and fully on June 30. The festivals will also start from June 30, with a gauge of one person per 4 square meters.