President Emmanuel Macron announced today, Thursday, that France will impose new restrictions to confront the outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) after France registered a record increase in the number of cases of the disease.
"In places where the disease is spreading very quickly, there will be new restrictions," Macron said, in an interview broadcast by the main television channels in France.
In recent weeks, France has witnessed unprecedented increases in the number of infections with the Coronavirus, after this indicator decreased significantly early last summer.
The French health authorities announced the registration of 18,746 new cases of "COVID-19" during the past twenty-four hours, in the highest daily death toll since the start of the outbreak in the country, bringing the total number of cases to the level of 653509.
France also suffered 80 new deaths, and although this number is also witnessing a gradual increase, it is far from the levels it reached during the height of the outbreak when it sometimes exceeded 1,000 deaths per day.
The French Minister of Health, Olivier Ferrand, announced on Thursday the state of maximum alert in 4 cities due to the outbreak of Corona, starting next Saturday.
In a press conference, the minister indicated that these cities are Lille, Lyon, and Grenoble, in addition to Santillen.
Today, Thursday, the French health authorities announced the registration of 18,129 new cases of Coronavirus, after recording 18746 cases yesterday. This brings the total number of injuries in the country to 671938, and deaths to 32,445 cases.
This brings the total number of infections to 653,509, while 80 new deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths across the country to 32,445.
Last Tuesday, the Public Health Agency in France announced that 10,489 cases and 65 new deaths had been recorded in the country.
The death toll from infection in France reached 634,763, and deaths reached 32,365. 7,398 Corona patients are currently receiving treatment in hospitals, and about 1.5 thousand of them are in intensive care rooms.
On Monday, the agency recorded 5,084 new cases, and on Sunday, nearly 12,000.
The agency’s experts, after analyzing the recent outbreak rates, confirmed that “the level of circulation of the virus on the French mainland is high,” and indicated that “in some areas, the severity of the situation is being minimized."
They described the epidemiological situation in 67 districts as "critical."
On the other hand, France has extended control measures at its borders until the end of April 2021 due to what it described as a "terrorist threat", which "is still very high."
News agencies reported that, according to a memorandum published on Tuesday received by the European Union Council from the French authorities, Paris indicated that what requires increased vigilance is in particular the start of the trial of "Charlie Hebdo" last September."
The trial, which began in Paris on the second of last month, extends until the tenth of this month.
The trial was described as "the first of its kind" and 14 people are being tried for attacking the satirical magazine and killing 12 people in and around its offices in 2015 after the magazine published controversial cartoons in which Muslims considered it an insult to their Messenger.
However, Dr. Christian Dorsten, a German virologist, who developed the world's first corona diagnostic experiment, made alarming predictions about the Coronavirus over the near future.
He predicted that the virus will now begin to spread effectively with a new wave of infections.
Professor Dorsten is the director of the Institute of Virology at the Charity Hospital in Berlin, and in 2003 he was one of the discoverers of the SARS virus.
At the beginning of 2020, he developed the first test in the world to diagnose "SARS Cove-2 -2, the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).
Since the beginning of the pandemic, it has become known as an expert among a very wide audience in Germany
Dorsten indicated that it is difficult to predict infection trends or rates globally.
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