Coronavirus: France declares national curfew from 6pm to 6am to curb COVID spread
Advertisement Paris: France will enact a national 6pm to 6am curfew as of Saturday and strengthen border controls, as it tries to slow the spread of coronavirus infections in light of the new variant identified in Britain, Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Friday (AEDT). The move will bring forward an existing 8pm curfew by two hours, based on results achieved in a few areas where a 12-hour nightly lockdown has already been enacted. "This measure is effective on the health situation," Castex said. He said regions which already with the earlier curfew had two to three times fewer new cases th...