The mayor of Paris has called for all schools to close, as the number of Paris students currently out of class due to sickness or virus-induced closures rises to 20,000, amid a very serious third wave of Covid-19.
Speaking to the French channel BFM TV on Wednesday, Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo described the “very serious situation” in which the French capital finds itself, with nearly 1,500 people in intensive care in Ile-de-France. By comparison, that figure is almost three times the number of patients on mechanical ventilation in the whole of the UK.
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