France will close from Monday all nurseries, schools and universities to try to ...
PARIS - France will close from Monday all nurseries, schools and universities to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus, President Emmanuel Macron said in a televised address, calling the outbreak the nation’s worst public health crisis in a century.
“This epidemic ..is the most grave public health crisis that France has known in a century,” Macron said in a 20-minute address delivered live on national television on Thursday night.Unveiling some of the most significant measures to date from a major European country outside of Italy, Macron said the aim was to slow down the disease enough that healthcare services can keep pace with the flow of patients.
On Thursday, the French Health Ministry said the death toll in France from the coronavirus outbreak had risen to 61 from Wednesday’s 48.
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