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COVID-19 still circulating at a ‘worrying’ level in France, says minister

FILE PHOTO: The questions to the government session at the
FILE PHOTO: The questions to the government session at the National Assembly in Paris

PARIS (Reuters) – French Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Tuesday the coronavirus was still circulating at a “worrying” level in France, but stopped short of recommending a third national lockdown.

“We already took a tough decision last week to impose a 6 p.m. curfew on the country as a whole,” Veran told France Inter radio. “I cannot say we will impose a confinement but the circulation of the virus remains worrying.”

(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta and Benoit Van Overstraeten; Editing by Andrew Heavens)