France set to enter third lockdown amid COVID-19 surge

As cases of coronavirus rising around the world, France is set to enter the third lockdown beginning Saturday.

France: As cases of coronavirus rising around the world, France is set to enter the third lockdown beginning Saturday.

The ruling has come a few days after the French president Emmanuel Macron had hinted against imposing a lockdown. However, after heavy criticism, the government chose to impose another lockdown to contain the widespread of the deadly COVID-19 virus.

President Macron is also hoping to utilise this time to vaccinate as several people as possible. “We will do everything to vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate! Without rest, without holidays. Saturday and Sunday just like in the week,” he stated.

He has also claimed that France will have caught up with the United Kingdom on the number of people being injected against the deadly COVID-19.

“In a few weeks, we will have totally caught up with the British, who will meanwhile be increasingly dependent on us to prevent their population,” he told a local newspaper.

The order of lockdown came a little after Macron announced a temporary closure of schools in the country.

“We have adopted a strategy since the starting of the year that aims to contain the epidemic without shutting ourselves in,” he said.

On Wednesday, while addressing the nation with the concern of rising cases, Macron announced the tightening of restrictions in the form of school closure, travel restrictions across the country and closure of non-essential shops.

Earlier, Macron had said that by not imposing lockdown, “we gained precious weeks of liberty, weeks of learning for our children, we conceded hundreds of thousands of workers to keep their head above water, without succumbing control of the epidemic”.

Currently, many countries are witnessing a surge of COVID-19; many countries are trying to vaccinate their people as per as maximum. 

Current world meter of coronavirus cases :

Total confirmed cases: 130 Million 

Total Recovered: 73.7 Million

Total deaths due to COVID-19: 2.84 Million  

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