Macron extends France's lockdown until May 11

PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday (Apr 13) announced he was extending a lockdown to curb the cornavirus outbreak until May 11, ...

PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday announced he was extending a lockdown to curb the cornavirus outbreak until May 11, adding that progress had been made but the battle not yet won.

"But our country was not sufficiently ready for this crisis. We will all draw all the consequences," Macron added. 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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