The French government will is to reimpose an evening curfew on Paris, and possibly the Ile-de-France region around the capital, to tackle worsening Covid-19 figures, a government spokesman has said.
The evening curfew on Paris, which would start at 9pm would come on top of a new, national lockdown imposed last week by President Emmanuel Macron. "We are going to reinstate a curfew on Paris, and perhaps the Ile-de-France.
The Interior Ministry will specify the details later in the day and an edict will be issued," , Gabriel Attal told BFM TV. France reported a record 52,518 new Covid-19 cases yesterday and the number hospitalised rose by more than a 1,000 for the fourth time in eight days, as the pandemic shows no signs of abating despite the