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Coronavirus: France daily tally ‘could be 100,000’ as Europe fights Covid-19 onslaught
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France may be experiencing 100,000 new coronavirus cases per day – twice the latest official figure – as some countries in the northern hemisphere faced what the World Health Organization’s (WHO) director general called a “dangerous moment”.
Covid-19 has claimed the lives of 1.1 million people and infected more than 43 million globally.
The UN agency’s figures showed that 465,319 cases were declared on Saturday alone, half of them in Europe, which it said was at an especially critical juncture with winter looming.
“This is a dangerous moment for many countries in the northern hemisphere as cases spike,” WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
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But he added that people were not powerless against the virus, stressing the importance of social distancing, hand washing, and meeting outdoors instead of inside.
“Again and again we have seen that taking the right actions quickly means the outbreak can be managed.”
France, the euro zone’s second-biggest economy, was examining whether to tighten lockdown measures further to curb the resurgence of the Covid-19 virus, having already imposed nighttime curfews on major cities including Paris.
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