PARIS (Reuters) -It is too risky to lift France’s COVID-19 restrictions more quickly than planned, since some regions are showing a big jump in COVID cases, said French government spokesman Gabriel Attal.
Attal said that even though the national picture showed a steady decline in France’s overall COVID cases and deaths, regions such as the Pyrenees-Atlantique area close to Spain, and the Nouvelle-Aquitaine area which houses the major city of Bordeaux, were showing a weekly increase in COVID numbers.
The pressure on France’s hospital system has been gradually easing over the last two months, after France ended its third national lockdown in May.
(Reporting by Dominique Vidalon;Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)
