By Fayçal Benhassain | March 31, 2021 | 5:16pm EDT
Nurses tend to a woman infected with COVID-19 in an intensive care unit of a hospital in Saint-Denis, Paris, on Monday. (Photo by Thomas Samson/AFP via Getty Images)
Paris (CNSNews.com) – With medical professionals warning of an impending health “disaster,” French President Emmanuel Macron took to the airwaves on Wednesday to announce new measures aimed at stemming the spread of coronavirus, including a national nighttime curfew, travel ban between different regions, three-week school closure, and a plan to have the entire population vaccinated by the end of the summer.
Some were hoping Macron would announce a third strict lockdown to tackle the crisis, but he stopped short of doing so.
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