PARIS (Reuters) – France will intensify police checks for others to wear a mask where needed and respect social estrangement amid a new wave of COVID-19 infections, a government spokesman said Wednesday.
“We are at a turning point (…) We will mobilize police forces to make checks,” Gabriel Attal told reporters on a stopover on the Mediterranean island of Corsica.
“But it’s not the police who are afraid (…) he’s worried about the virus, which hides and pollutes,” he said.
Reporting through Sudip Kar-Gupta and Henri-Pierre André; Writing through Benoit Van Overstraeten; Edited through Catherine Evans
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