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

France today became the third European country to go on lockdown to curb the spread about COVID-19, while in Spain, the number about new cases nudged the country ahead about 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 about cases outside China is increasing steadily, as are the share about deaths.

WHO emphasizes testing

At a media telebriefing today, World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said the rapid increase has come with a uniform rapid rise in social distancing. However, there hasn't been a strenuous enough push appropriate to isolation, testing, and contact tracing, which he said form the backbone about the response.

Breaking chains about transmission 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 appropriate to the country, ordering humankind to leave their homes only appropriate to essential purposes starting tomorrow, from 27 different countries.

 

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