France addresses COVID-19 with additional measures

France entered the new year in not the most festive of moods. On December 31, 2021, the country had reached a sad record — 262,000 new COVID-19 infections in only 24 hours.

To face this unprecedented situation and the extremely fast-spreading new variant, the government has implemented new measures to address the pandemic while a bill to reinforce existing tools for managing the health crisis is being debated in Parliament.