Factbox: Back to lockdown - the new French measures to contain COVID-19 spread

PARIS (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Jean Castex on Thursday gave details of the lockdown that will come into effect on Friday in an effort to put the brakes on a COVID-19 epidemic that officials say risks spiraling out of control. Below are the main measures he announced: * People will have to remain in their homes and only ventureoutside if they have a justification for doing that. Those justifications include: essential food shopping, taking a child to school, essential work that cannot be done from home, attending a medical appointment, providing urgent help to a family member, or one hour per day of exercise within one kilometer of the home. * Anyone outside their home will need to carry a documentjustifying their presence outside. This can be checked bypolice. * Schools will remain open, a departure from the lastlockdown in the spring when all educational establishments were shut down. * Children from six years old and upwards will be required to wear masks in classes. Up to now, the requirement to wear masks applied to children from 11 upwards. * Universities will close. * Cafes, and restaurants will shut. * Shops will close, with the exception of garages, auto repair shops, supermarkets, launderettes, opticians, and pharmacies. * State services for the public will remain open, includingmunicipal services. * Places of worship will remain open, but celebrations such as weddings will be limited to small groups. * All those who can work from home must do so, unless it is technically impossible. * Community sport activities will be halted. * No one can enter France from outside the European Union except in special circumstances, but borders between France and other EU countries will remain open. * The measures are to come into effect from 00:01 am onFriday morning and will remain in force until Dec. 1. * Hotels can remain open with limited capacity for professional travel. (Reporting by Geert De Clercq and Christian Lowe) The story has been taken from a news agency

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