Factbox: Parisians banned from regional travel as new local lockdown starts

FILE PHOTO: An empty terrace is seen at "Le Champ de Mars" restaurant before the national lockdown introduced as part of the new COVID-19 measures to fight a second wave of the coronavirus disease, in Paris, France, October 29, 2020. REUTERS/Charles Platiau

PARIS (Reuters) - Paris and the Ile-de-France region around it, as well as several other areas where the COVID-19 epidemic is accelerating, will start a new four-week lockdown this weekend but confinement measures will not be as strict as in previous nationwide lockdowns, French Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Thursday.

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