PARIS, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) We will do everything we can to avoid a new lockdown, said French Prime Minister Jean Castex on Friday when announcing a new raft of tighter restrictions including border control to contain COVID-19. Speaking after a defense council on the epidemic, Castex admitted that the question of confinement is a legitimate one as the development of (the virus) variants poses a high risk of accelerating the epidemic. But we know the very heavy impact (of lockdown) for French people. We believe that we can still give ourselves a chance to avoid it, he said. In a bid to complement a nightly curfew, which produces real effects but insufficient, France would close borders to non-European Union countries except for essential travel starting from Sunday.
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