Covid-19: from Friday, dancing in bars and restaurants will be prohibited for four weeks – franceinfo

No one on the dance floor. From Friday December 10, and until January 6 inclusive, iIt will be forbidden to dance in bars and restaurants, according to a published decree Wednesday December 8 in the Official Journal. This period corresponds to that of the closure of nightclubs announced Monday by the government.

Nightclubs “cannot welcome the public until January 6 inclusive” from Friday 6 a.m., according to the decree which adds that “this prohibition applies until the same date to dance activities” bars and restaurants.

A study published in November in the medical journal The Lancet – the ComCor study by the Institut Pasteur conducted from May 23 to August 13 – concluded that nightclubs were “places at high risk of transmission”, because they are closed places with poor ventilation, where the virus can more easily stay suspended in the air.

The nightclubs reopened in France on July 9, with health pass, after 16 months of closure. The owners of nightclubs have been compensated, and will be compensated again to compensate for the losses of the coming weeks, but they complain that other festive places will be able to remain open.