Foreign Minister of France Jean-Yves Le Drian confirmed that the government will take additional measures to reduce people's movements if necessary in order to curb the outbreak of the Coronavirus, which has become Europe's first global focus after China.
On Friday, Le Drian stressed that the world after the virus, which the World Health Organization has described as the worst health crisis facing the world, will not be the same as before.
He also clarified that 130,000 French people abroad are trying to return due to the Coronavirus, explaining that the authorities will consider the requests inpidually.
In an interview with France Info radio, he added that the basic principle is that we want to return them to the homeland, but we ask them to remain calm and patience, noting that it is up to them to pay for their return tickets.
Le Drian urged more than three million French expatriates to stay where they are, and warned that the government was ready to tighten restrictions to limit people's movements if the current guidelines were not adhered to.
French Disdain
The Director-General of the French Health Authority, Johnoviev Chen, announced, on Thursday, that extending the isolation measures in France beyond the 15 days originally planned to stop the spread of the virus, would be a "necessary step.”
She added that the dynamic of the epidemic "depends on each of us respecting the measures to preserve the distance and isolation," explaining that "some French underestimate it."
She continued on radio, "France Info" that it is expected to record "a significant decline" for the outbreak of the epidemic "within two or four weeks."
108 new deaths within 24 hours in France
It is noteworthy that France recorded 108 deaths yesterday within 24 hours, raising the total number in the country to 372 deaths, according to the Director General of Health, Jerome Salomon.
While 4761 out of 10995 hospital cases were approved positive through laboratory tests.
"The number of infections doubles every four days," Salomon added, warning that the virus is spreading in France "quickly and intensively.”
He also stressed the absolute necessity to adhere to "strict isolation measures," adding that "if every person shrinks his contact with others, we will have fewer injuries.”
It is noteworthy that the authorities began Tuesday to impose isolation measures, to be adhered to in varying proportions between cities.
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