FILE PHOTO: A member of the medical staff, wearing a protective suit and a face mask, looks out of a room with a patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the military hospital Laveran in Marseille, France, September 18, 2020. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
PARIS (Reuters) - The French government is poised to put Paris on maximum COVID alert from as soon as Monday, Health Minister Olivier Veran said, a move which would likely force the closure of restaurants and bars and tighten other restrictions on public life.
Veran said the wider Paris region had now passed all three of the government's criteria for being placed on the highest level of alert. In the past 24 hours, the incidence rate had surpassed 250 cases for every 100,000 inhabitants.
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