Roundup: Lockdown or not -- France weighs up new rules to curb COVID-19

PARIS, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- After many European countries went into new lockdown to cope with an exponential rise in COVID-19, eyes are now on France where calls are growing to introduce a new confinement, but questions linger on when the country will take such a move and how the lockdown will be: hard or soft?

French government, for now, sticks to a package of measures it has already imposed, including a 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew and tough borders control, although it admitted that the situation is "worrying".