in France number of dead from
coronavirus continues to rise nearly 600
deaths recorded in just 24 hours these
are strictly enforcing the government's
tough quarantine measures over the
Easter holiday in Paris railway stations
airports and major roads have we
monitored to prevent people leaving the
city Lucie Williamson reports it's not
only nations that thrive on Liberty
epidemics - at stations across Paris
today every journey began with a police
check freedom of movement a new national
threat Iran made it through he's on his
way home to Brittany after two years
abroad but even the smallest mistake
means being turned away I wrote the
wrong date not today's date and they've
told me I need to go back home to
prepare another form I have to go to
work but I can't France carried out
almost 6 million checks during the first
fortnight of confinement far more than
neighbouring Italy and it's issued more
than 400,000 fines but questions over
when the confinement will end a growing
Frances tough approach to the
confinement runs the risk of losing
public support if it becomes too harsh
or too long the Interior Minister has
advised sensitivity in applying the
rules and says the police operate
differently in the countryside compared
to the big cities in the poorest suburbs
compared to the towns but the Paris
police chief was forced to apologise
today after taking a very different tone
suki saw albany once were hospitalized
today the ones on life support now are
the ones that didn't respect the
quarantine when it began this is not a
video game it's real there are dead
people with few life support beds left
in the Paris region patients are being
sent across the country for care this is
now the worst-hit region of France but
is there light at the end of the tunnel
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emergency watch and as I see me abyssion
that came for cyanide
half eat says there were no new
admissions to intensive care in his
hospital today a first since the
epidemic began the first glimpse of Hope
here after weeks of fear and frustration
the first sign that confinement might
have worked
Lucy Williamson BBC News Paris just
wanted to bring you some up-to-date
figures while we're talking about Europe
in Spain the number of recorded deaths
from chrono virus has fallen for a
second successive day so they peaked on
Thursday so far with with 950 deaths the
deaths overnight recorded Spain Friday
in sight it's Saturday 809 total number
of deaths in Spain now stands at eleven
thousand seven hundred and forty four
just behind Italy a number of new cases
in Spain also showed as slowed slightly
with seven thousand and twenty six
people taking tests in positive taking
at the number who have made the
infection to just over a hundred and
twenty four and a half thousand