Tension at the top: French medics push for lockdown, government resists
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05/02/2021 - 14:39
A woman wearing a protective mask walks on an empty Croisette during a nationwide curfew, from 6 p.m to 6pm in Cannes. But some health specialists say the curfew is not enough. REUTERS - Eric Gaillard
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Two leading French health officials have called for more restrictive measures to rein in the spread of Covid-19 infections, in the latest sign of increasing tensions between government and scientists on how to handle the issue.
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"We're still at a high plateau in France. At one point it will be too high and, to new restrictive measures will be inevitable to bring it down," Karine Lacombe, head of infectious diseases at Paris' Saint Antoine hospital, told France Inter radio on Friday.