France mulls more COVID curbs as intensive care beds fill


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  • Tuesday, 13 Oct 2020

FILE PHOTO: French Junior Minister for Housing Emmanuelle Wargon attends the questions to the government session at the National Assembly in Paris, France, September 15, 2020. REUTERS/Charles Platiau

PARIS (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron met senior cabinet ministers on Tuesday to discuss possible further restrictions to tackle a second coronavirus wave sweeping across France.

France, like neighbouring Spain and Britain, is grappling with how to slow the virus' spread and ease pressure on a once-again strained healthcare system while keeping its 2.3 trillion euro ($2.71 trillion) economy open and protecting jobs.

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