The French government plans to extend its state of emergency until February 16 next year.
Government spokesman Gabriel Attal also said several other parts of the country would be on red alert, they will see curfews being imposed.
The proposed new end date for fitness status means nine o’clock at night. at 6 a. m. , curfews already in force in France’s largest cities could end.
On Friday, the country reported more than 30,000 cases on a single day, since the start of the pandemic.
Tuesday’s total of 20,468 brought the national figure to more than 973,000, with nearly another 34,000 people having died after contracting the coronavirus.
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Mr. Attal also stated that the emergency rooms of the country’s hospitals were now at 40% capacity due to the influx of PATIENTS with COVID-19.
French media reported that hospitals in the cities of Clermont and Dijon were entering emergency mode, meaning they are postponing non-coronavirus operations and cancelling the holidays.
Hospitals in the Paris region entered emergency mode before this month, and coronavirus patients account for nearly a portion of all patients in intensive care (ICU) sets.
In a sign of the increase in the pandemic in Europe, 20 European countries, in addition to the United Kingdom, reported cases on Wednesday.
The highest number of cases recorded in the United Kingdom, followed by Italy (15,199), the Czech Republic – formerly Czech Republic (11,984), while Poland recorded 10,040.
The Netherlands recorded 8,500 new cases a week after ministers announced a partial closure.
Ukraine (6719), Switzerland (5596), Romania (4848) Slovakia (2202), Armenia (1836), Slovenia (1503), Croatia (1424), Bulgaria 133 Greece (865), Belarus (733), Northern Macedonia (640), Bosnia and Herzegovina (728), Lithuania (311) and Latvia (188) set new records.
Brigitte Macron, the first French girl and wife of President Emmanuel Macron, begins seven days of self-disality after contacting a diagnosis of COVID-19, authorities said.
Macron contacted a person, who then tested positive for the disease on Thursday, before curfew was introduced.