French Covid situation serious but some encouraging signs after recent lockdown measures
“We have the first encouraging signs in the 16 departments where we had imposed restriction measures”
The situation in French hospitals remains "serious" but France is starting to see some signs of improvement in regions where it had imposed a lockdown a few weeks ago, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Thursday.
"We have the first encouraging signs in the 16 departments where we had imposed restriction measures," Attal told a news conference following a meeting of French government ministers.
France is hoping a ramp up of its vaccination campaign, combined with the one-month lockdown in place since last week-end, will help it regain control over the latest outbreak, fuelled by variants of the novel coronavirus.