France still facing several difficult weeks due to COVID: minister

FILE PHOTO: People walk and cycle on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, as France’s 16 hardest-hit departments go into a new month-long lockdown imposed to slow the rate of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) contagion, France March 20, 2021. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

PARIS (Reuters) – France is facing several difficult weeks ahead due to the new spread of the COVID-19 virus, which has led the government to enforce a new lockdown in some parts of the country, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Wednesday.

“We still have several difficult weeks ahead of us”, he told BFM TV.

Reporting by Bertrand Boucey; Writing by Benoit Van Overstraeten; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta

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