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French New Virus Cases Top 13,000 as Europe Lockdown Risk Rises
- U.K.’s Johnson says restrictions ‘may need to go further’
- Madrid sets massive Covid test program to stave off shutdown
Medical staff care for a Covid-19 patient at the Croix-Rousse hospital in Lyon, France. The number of hospitalizations in France has started to climb.
Photographer: Jeff Pachoud/AFP via Getty Images
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France’s daily coronavirus cases surged the most since the end of lockdown in May and Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the U.K. is experiencing “a second wave,” as Europe’s infections raise the specter of the kind of large-scale curbs that crippled the economy in the second quarter.
The Madrid regional government said Friday it will test 1 million people — about every seventh resident of the Spanish capital region — for Covid-19 over the next week to stem the surge in cases. U.K. cabinet members declined to rule out a short national lockdown.