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France closes to avoid collapse. According to what was relaunched by BFMTV, the French government has decided a total shutdown in the country in effect from midnight on Thursday for a month.
The decision, says the French station, must be confirmed by the executive during the second Defense Council to be held on Wednesday morning, a few hours before a speech by Emmanuel Macron, scheduled for 8:00 p.m. on television.
In France, 33,417 new cases of infection were detected in the last 24 hours, according to data from Santé Publique France and the Ministry of Health. The day before, 26,771 people tested positive. In total, 1,198,695 positive tests have been issued since the outbreak. On the other hand, 523 people died in the last 24 hours, 288 in hospitals and 235 in nursing homes. Since the outbreak began, 35,541 people have died from Covid-19. In the last 24 hours, 1,194 people have been hospitalized, of which 148 in intensive care, compared to 186 on Monday.
