While France is preparing to loosen its lockdown measures on May 11, the nation's health emergency status has been extended until July 24.
The state of emergency, declared initially on March 22, is also going to contain new measures, France's Health and Interior ministers announced.
People in France will have to wait until Monday to ascertain what precisely these measures mean in real terms. What has been stipulated is that these are precautionary measures intended to avoid a rebound of the