French President Emmanuel Macron has extended movement restrictions to cover the whole of France, and said schools would close for three weeks as he sought to pushback a third wave of Covid-19 infections.
Mr Macron said he was extending the lockdown rules already in place in Paris, swathes of the north and parts of the south east to the whole country for at least a month, from Saturday. "We will lose control if we do not move now," the president said in a televised address to the nation.
He said that current efforts to limit the virus "were too limited at a time when the epidemic is accelerating". There have been at least 95,337 coronavirus-related deaths in France and intensive care units in the hardest-hit regions are at the point of