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PARIS, April 8 (Reuters) - The situation in French hospitals
remains "serious" but France is starting to see some signs of
improvement in regions where it had imposed a lockdown a few
weeks ago, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Thursday.
"We have the first encouraging signs in the 16 departments
where we had imposed restriction measures," Attal told a news
conference following a meeting of French government ministers.
France is hoping a ramp up of its vaccination campaign,
combined with the one-month lockdown in place since last
week-end, will help it regain control over the latest outbreak,
fuelled by variants of the novel coronavirus.
(Reporting by Dominique Vidalon;
Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)
