French president Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will face a second wave of lockdown beginning from Saturday this week. The said curfew will be between 9pm and 6am.
All forms of public transportation will halt operations ahead of the 9pm curfew.
According to French health authorities, hospitals are facing a huge increase of coronavirus patients. Total new cases for France for Wednesday October 14 was 22,591 for a country of 67 million. Even United States, the country with the worst COVID-19 record, posted 41,759 which is less than twice France’s totals despite having over five times the population.
With hospitals having no more bed for patients, Macron declared it’s time to take another action to prevent escalation of covid-19 in the country
The new restrictions mean no outing between 21:00hrs until 06:00hrs everyday beginning this Saturday. In addition, and also all bars, restaurants, churches, and markets have been ordered shut until further notice by the president.
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