Re-Cycling

Some people in the UK have advocated increasing cycling to facilitate both exercise (and mental health?) in the time of Covid-19 lockdown  (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2020/mar/20/why-not-encourage-cycling-during-the-coronavirus-lockdown). This fits oddly with the announcement that, in France, cycling is to become a banned activity, along with jogging being restricted to a maximum of 2 km  from home (https://www.thelocal.fr/20200319/france-tightens-rules-on-jogging-during-coronavirus-lockdown). Other countries, such as Spain and Denmark, appear to be encouraging cycling as being safer alternatives to sharing public transport. It seems to me, that people will need to be able to take exercise outside their homes (exercise in the home depends on equipment and is just not the same) over what is likely to be an extended period of 'lockdown'. Pretty obviously, mass cycling and running events should be out of the question but individual activity (cycling or running), whilst maintaining social distance, must be broadly beneficial.