France says COVID19 crisis 'worsening', aims to avoid lockdown
French Prime Minister Jean Castex warned Friday the country was seeing a "clear worsening" of the coronavirus pandemic, but aimed to avoid a new nationwide lockdown that would hammer the economy.
"We have to succeed in living with this virus, without returning to the idea of a generalised lockdown," he said in a televised statement from his official residence in Paris. "There is no Maginot Line -- inevitably it ends up reaching the most vulnerable," he said in reference to supposedly impenetrable defences France built ahead of World War II.
Castex also said that testing capacities would be ramped up in response to long wait times for appointments and results.
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