France Announces Four Weeks National Lockdown With Strict Measures As COVID-19 Cases Surge In The Country

President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will go into a nationwide lockdown on Friday as Covid-19 cases surge in the country.

Macron announced the measures in a televised address to the nation on Wednesday evening, adding that measures already taken “are not enough.”

The new measures to curb the novel coronavirus are: 

• Under the new lockdown, people will need a certificate to move around.
• Nonessential businesses, restaurants and bars will be closed.
• Schools will remain open, people can go to work and care homes visits will be allowed.
• Macron warned that by mid-November all intensive care unit beds would be taken by Covid-19 patients unless a “brake” is put on the virus.