PARIS (Reuters) – Intensive care capacities in France’s southern city of Marseille are close to overloaded, the director of public hospitals there said on Monday.
The local government also announced new measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic including cancelling fairs and other events and banning drinking alcohol in public late in the evening.
(Reporting by Marc Leras in Marseille and Maya Nikolaeva in Paris; Editing by Andrew Heavens)