French Minister of Health: The Peak of Corona’s Infection May be Within 10 Days

French Health Minister Olivier Ferrand told Radio France Inter that the country could reach the peak of the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic within 7 to 10 days after President Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday new restrictions to combat the pandemic.

Macron ordered the imposition of the third general isolation in France, and said that schools will be closed for three weeks in an attempt to address the third wave of Corona injuries that may make hospitals unable to accommodate patients.

Macron stated that he decided to extend the general isolation measures already imposed in the capital, Paris, and large sectors of the north and parts of the southeast, to include the entire country from Saturday and for a period of at least a month.

New daily infections in France have doubled since February to nearly 40,000 cases on average. The number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care exceeded 5,000 this week, exceeding the peak of the second six-week lockdown implemented by the French government late last year.