France’s New COVID-19 Hospitalizations and ICU Treatments Rise Sharply

A woman, walks past Champs Elysees avenue near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, in France, on Jan. 25, 2021. Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters

PARIS—The number of people hospitalized in France for COVID-19 rose by more than a 1,000 over the last two days, a trend unseen since Nov 16, and the number of patients in intensive care units for the disease exceeded 3,000 for the first time since Dec 9.

A growing number of medical experts have called for a third lockdown in France but French media report that President Emmanuel Macron is trying to avoid such a measure.