President Emmanuel Macron ordered France into its third national lockdown Wednesday 31 March 2021 in an effort to slow a third wave of current global pandemmic infecting his country.
Among the lockdown measures, Macron closed all schools for three weeks beginning next Monday 05 April 2021.
Macron had hoped to avoid a lockdown and the effect it would have on the economy. However, the country’s death toll is nearing 100,000 and it has struggled with a vaccine rollout that has been slower than hoped for. A rise in cases is crippling intensive care units in areas hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
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