The French government summoned the head of the telecom operator Orange on Thursday over a network outage that left people unable to reach emergency services for hours, possibly causing three deaths.
Europe News: PARIS: France's government said that many emergency call centres for medical services, police and firefighters across the country were unable to be co.
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Patients have been transferred to hospitals in the western regions of France as the capital’s hospitals overflow with coronavirus cases. The country has seen a spike in cases and of people requiring intensive care as President Emmanuel Macron refuses to implement a full lockdown. France now has the sixth-highest total of COVID-19 cases in the world as new strains wreak havoc across both the rural and urban populations.