France ordered into third national lockdown as new COVID-19 infections double in a month

France is withdrawing into its third national lockdown as the death toll from the country’s coronavirus pandemic nears 100,000.

With intensive care units in the hardest-hit regions at breaking point and a slower than planned vaccine rollout, President Emmanuel Macron has been forced to abandon his goal of keeping the country open to protect the economy.

“We will lose control if we do not move now,” he said.

Movement restrictions already in place for more than a week in Paris, and some northern and southern regions, will now apply to the whole…