PARIS The government has not yet decided whether France will move into a third lockdown to curb the coronavirus epidemic and notably the circulation of new…
The COVID-19 situation in France is worrying, the head of the country's Haute Autorite de Sante (HAS) health regulator told France Inter radio on Monday, as President Emmanuel Macron's government considers a new lockdown.
The government has not yet decided whether France will move into a third lockdown to curb the coronavirus epidemic and notably the circulation of new variants of the virus, French European Affairs minister Clement Beaune said on Monday. France probably needs to move into a third lockdown, perhaps as early as the February school holidays, because of the circulation of the new variants, the government's top medical adviser Jean-Francois Delfraissy on COVID-19 policy had said on Sunday.
France has the world’s seventh-highest COVID-19 death toll, with more than 73,000 deaths.
“It is a worrying moment. We are looking at the figures, day by day. We need to take measures pretty quickly..but at the same time, not too hastily,” said HAS head Dominique Le Guludec.
Jean-Francois Delfraissy, head of the scientific council that advises the government on COVID-19, had said on Sunday that France probably needed a third national lockdown, perhaps as early as the February school holidays, because of the circulation of new variants of the virus.
French European Affairs Minister Clement Beaune, when asked about this on French radio on Monday, replied that no firm decision had been taken on the matter.
The Straits Times
France mulls over third lockdown as cases surge
Arrivals to France from EU countries by air or sea must be able to produce a negative PCR test result obtained in the previous 72 hours.PHOTO: AFP
PublishedJan 26, 2021, 5:00 am SGT
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