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France’s downward spiral of coronavirus repression

24 March 2020

11:48 PM

24 March 2020

11:48 PM

In France there is a palpable sense of administrative and political panic in how to deal with the coronavirus epidemic. As I write from Perpignan on the French-Spanish border on the morning of 24 March, France has19,856 coronavirus cases, 860 deaths and 2,082 critically ill; Britain 6,650, 335, 20. After Italy and Spain, France is the third worst affected country in Europe (Germany has more cases because it tests more, but only 123 deaths), but it has imposed and enforced the most severe lockdown.

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