Head of French health regulatory body: COVID situation is worrying

FILE PHOTO: Medical workers administer nasal swabs to patients at a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing centre in Nantes, France, January 22, 2021. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe/File Photo

PARIS (Reuters) - The COVID-19 situation in France is worrying, the head of the country's Haute Autorite de Sante (HAS) health regulator told France Inter radio on Monday, as President Emmanuel Macron's government considers a new lockdown.

France has the world's seventh-highest COVID-19 death toll, with more than 73,000 deaths.