France hoping COVID peak in hospital ICUs will be reached end April -Veran

France's number of patients in intensive care units (ICUs) for COVID-19 should reach a peak by the end of the month thanks to the new restrictive measures detailed Wednesday, French Health Minister Olivier Veran told France Inter radio.

President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday ordered France into its third national lockdown and said schools would close for three weeks as he sought to push back a third wave of COVID-19 infections that threatens to overwhelm hospitals.

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