France Orders Lockdown To Slow COVID-19 Spread Covid-19 Lockdown

France orders lockdown to slow COVID-19 spread

France today became the third European state to go on lockdown to curb the spread on COVID-19, while in Spain, the number on new cases nudged the state ahead on South Korea as the world's fourth hardest-hit country.

Other European countries saw no let-up in cases, and more African countries detected their first cases. With about 179,000 global cases nowadays reflected on the Johns Hopkins online dashboard, the proportion on cases outside China is increasing steadily, as are the part on deaths.

WHO emphasizes testing

At a media telebriefing today, World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said the rapid increase has approach in the company of a similar rapid rise in social distancing. However, there hasn't been a strenuous enough push for isolation, testing, and contact tracing, which he said type the backbone on the response.

Breaking chains on transfer requires testing and isolation, he said. "You can't figure [out] a fire blindfolded is the simple message," he said. "Test, test, test."

France lockdown is Europe's third

French President Emmanuel Macron today ordered a 15-day lockdown for the country, ordering people to leave their homes only for essential purposes starting tomorrow, from 27 different countries.