France will go back into a nationwide lockdown on Friday, president Emmanuel Macron has announced.
Addressing the nation on Wednesday, Mr Macron said that France must now ‘apply the brakes brutality’ to avoid being ‘submerged by the acceleration of the epidemic’.
The country is reporting more than 350 new cases per 100,000 people each week, and nearly 18% of its tests are now coming back positive.
He acknowledged the measures would hit the economy hard but said the country was at risk of being ‘overwhelmed by a second wave that no doubt will be harder than the first’.
The announcement comes after Germany announced a four-week shutdown to combat the second wave of coronavirus?
Pressure is growing on Boris Johnson to bring in a second lockdown as fears grow that the second wave will kill more people than the first.Â
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