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France shuts schools for three weeks and whole country heads for lockdown amid Covid-19 spike as Macron defends measures
31/03/2021From Saturday, France will widen regional lockdown measures to the entire country in a bid to halt rising Covid-19 infections, President Emmanuel Macron has said, while defending his government’s approach to tackling the virus. All face-to-face teaching in schools will be suspended…