Some fear the current two week home-quarantine will extend way past the end of March, and possibly for several more weeks. 5 doctors are now among the 1,100 deaths France-wide. European Centre For Disease Prevention Control Coronavirus Crackdown: Strict New Stay At Home RulesĪs a result of the snowballing situation in France, lockdown measures and penalties are growing tougher by the day, with French media reporting the worst could be yet to come. Despite being one of the worst hit countries it is still well behind Italy, and currently less impacted than Germany and Spain. The chart shows the spike in the number of cases in France, compared to some European neighbours. The peak is yet to come warn health officials. The ‘Hexagon’ is among a handful of the worst hit countries of the EU. The scale of the COVID-19 epidemic continues to grow incessantly in France as in other parts of Europe. “Some regional health agencies and prefectures report interesting data, but not all in the same way, which prevents any coherent national comparison for the moment.” It is also difficult to know the exact extent of the pandemic in France, it notes, “because the screenings are not systematic, and only the figures for people tested positive for COVID-19 are published.” Source Sante Publique/Map by ESRI FranceĬOVID-19 Picks Up Pace In France, And Neighbours France is lagging behind countries such as Italy the broadcaster France Info claims, by not providing a detailed up-to-date census on the disease spread every day. The area with the lowest number of infections is the island of Corsica (217) and the Loire (343). The region which started out as the disease epicentre, and remained that way until early March, the Hauts-de-France, has slowed, to 1,532 cased. The map shows 6,798 coronavirus cases in Greater Paris–from a total 22,302-followed by the Grand Est.
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