France president Emmanuel Macron said the lockdown will be extended to May 11 in a televised interview on Monday. He said that no festivals drawing large crowds will be allowed to take place until …
on ice – organizers had been planning to postpone the festival to late June/early July.
The president also said theaters, restaurants and bars, as well as shops, will remain shut beyond May 11. Meanwhile, daycare centers and schools will start reopening under specific conditions on May 11, while universities will remain closed. Macron said the health crisis was revealing inequalities in every aspect of daily life under the lockdown.
France has already been on lockdown since March 17. It is one of the hardest hit countries in the world with 98,076 cases of
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