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France mobilizes 90,000 police officers to ensure Covid-19 lockdown compliance : Reports

Moscow, Mar 27 (Sputnik) France is mobilizing 90,000 police officers and gendarmes this weekend to ensure compliance with coronavirus restrictions amid rise in new cases and intensive care admissions, local media reported Saturday.
According to the BFMTV broadcaster, controls have been tightened since Friday at train stations, airports, and tollbooths. All travel further than 6.2 miles has been restricted; shops and schools have been closed in the 19 hardest-hit regions.
Meanwhile, the country is experiencing "an exponential phase," the head of the intensive care unit at Cochin hospital in Paris, Jean-Paul Mira, told the broadcaster.
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