French PM says we can still avoid a third COVID lockdown
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- Reuters
- Published Date: 02:00 | 30 January 2021
- Modified Date: 02:00 | 30 January 2021
Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Friday the coronavirus variants first detected in Britain and South Africa posed a dangerous risk to France but that a third nationwide lockdown could still be avoided.
Instead, Castex said France would further tighten COVID-19 controls at its borders, reduce the number of people allowed into shopping malls and increase police controls against people breaking a nightly curfew.
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