French Churches Reopen Amid COVID-19 Lockdown Ease
French bishop Emmanuel Gobilliard leaves after leading the first mass since the beginning of the lockdown due to Covid 19 pandemic, on May 23, 2020 in Saint-Jean cathedral in Lyon, as France eases lockdown measures taken to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus. JEFF PACHOUD / AFP.
The ruling said that such a ban on freedom of worship caused “damage that is serious and manifestly illegal”, ordering the government to lift the ban within eight days. At one church in Neuilly-sur-Seine, just outside Paris, some worshippers turned up at short notice Saturday morning, having heard that mass would be celebrated.
The latest figures for those seriously ill from the virus fell Saturday, with 1,665 patients still in intensive care for the coronavirus: 36 fewer than 24 hours ago.But the government has had to fight a series of legal and battles to control the pace of the gradual loosening of France’s two-month lockdown.
Many of its experts judge that it is too soon to say that the virus has been brought under control in France.
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