The French government has tried hard to avoid imposing a third nationwide lockdown. “I admit I was a bit disappointed that we aren’t being locked down nationwide.”

“When you look at the numbers, they’re unsustainable, and it is going to become ever-harder as the virus continues to circulate,” Anaelle Aeschliman, a nurse at the Ambroise Pare clinic in the western Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, said. PARIS (AP) France’s president says he has no reason to be sorry about refusing to impose a third national lockdown earlier this year, even though surging coronavirus infections are straining his country’s hospitals and more than 1,000 people with the virus are dying every week. The country reported 35,327 new confirmed cases on Saturday, when the number of Covid-19 patients in French intensive care units rose to 4,353, the most so far this year, the Health Ministry reported. The government announced the measures as the coronavirus picked up speed again in some parts of France. The form the French government still obliges citizens to fill out to travel greater distances, up to 18.6 miles, also was not accessible online because of a technical glitch.Ī website on Sunday simply said: “Available soon.”Ĭhairs and tables are piled up inside a closed restaurant, in Paris (Francois Mori/AP) While the French government insisted the rules would be less strict than in the past, the measures have been criticised as messy.Ī travel authorisation certificate posted online was so ridiculed by French media for its unnecessary complexity that the Interior Ministry scrapped it within hours.įor now, simple proof of residence is required to stroll within a 6.2-mile radius.

Residents of Paris and several other regions of France spent their first weekend under a limited month-long lockdown.

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