On 28 October 2020, the President of the Republic decided to take measures to reduce contacts and travel across the entire territory to the absolute minimum by establishing a lockdown from 30 October to at least 1 December.
Travel is prohibited except in the following cases and only with a certificate for:
- Travel between home and the place of professional activity or universities (or higher education institutions) for students or adult education centres, and professional travel that cannot be deferred
- Travel to make purchases of supplies necessary for professional activity, essential purchases from establishments whose activities remain authorised (list on gouvernement.fr), and home deliveries;
- Consultations and care cannot be provided remotely and cannot be postponed, and the purchase of medicines; ;
- Travel for compelling family reasons, to assist vulnerable and precarious individuals, or for childcare. ;
- The travel of people with disabilities and their carer; ;
- Short trips, within the limit of one hour per day and within a maximum radius of one kilometre from home, related either to individual physical activity, excluding any group sports or proximity to other people, or to walking with only those people living in the same household, or to the needs of pets; ;
- Court summons or administrative summons and appointments at a public service; ;
- Participation in missions of general interest upon request of the administrative authority.