NICE (France) (AFP) - Tour de France 'Grand Depart' host city Nice scrambled to impose tighter health protocols on Thursday (Aug 27) as the region was reclassified a Covid-19 'red zone' while four members of one team were sent home after positive pre-race tests.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NICE - Tour de France"Grand Depart" host city Nice scrambled to impose tighter health protocols on Thursday as the region was reclassified a Covid-19"red zone", while four members of one team were sent home after positive pre-race tests.
Fines of €135 were dished out to anyone without a protective face mask in Nice's terrace-lined squares and along the beachfront walkways. Saturday's Promenade des Anglais start line will allow just 100 spectators, reserved for municipality staff"who worked so hard to get this to happen", Mr Gonzalez said.
Anyone involved in the Tour - riders and the rest of the caravan - have undergone nasal tests for coronavirus symptoms. The mountainous 21-day race starts on Saturday with a run around the outskirts of Nice but avoids the low Alps behind it until stage two, meaning the first stage should end in a mass bunch sprint.
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