PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday (Apr 13) announced he was extending a virtual lockdown to curb the cornavirus outbreak until May ...
French president Emmanuel Macron takes part in a videoconference with World Health Organization general director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the Elysee Palace on Apr 8, 2020 in Paris. Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFPPARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday announced he was extending a virtual lockdown to curb the cornavirus outbreak until May 11, adding that progress had been made but the battle not yet won.
Acknowledging his country had not been sufficiently prepared early on to face the challenges posed by the outbreak of the new coronavirus, Macron said the unprecedented restrictions put in place were showing results."The epidemic is starting to slow down. The results are there," Macron said in a televised address to the nation."Thanks to your efforts, everyday we have made progress.
"But our country was not sufficiently ready for this crisis. We will all draw all the consequences," Macron said. Macron's prime time address came as France ended a fourth week under lockdown, with residents ordered to stay at home except to buy food, go to work, seek medical care or get some exercise on their own.
After a relentless increase until the first week of April, the number of patients in French hospitals' intensive care units has started to decline, prompting health authorities to call a plateau in the deadly epidemic.But if French hospitals are just about coping, helped by a massive effort to transfer patients by plane, helicopter or even high-speed train from hospitals in the east and Paris to the west, nursing homes have been overwhelmed.
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