(ANSA) - PARIS, 08 OCT - "The situation is worsening in several of our cities, as in other countries close to France": with these words the Minister of Health, Oliviér Véran, began his weekly press conference.
The minister announced that four cities - Lille, Grenoble, Lyon and Saint-Etienne - pass in the "maximum alert" area such as Paris Marseille-Aix en Provence.
In Dijon and Clermont-Ferrand, worrying signs emerge and the two cities go from alert to reinforced alert.
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