France's COVID cases keep surging as new restrictions loom

New COVID-19 infections, hospitalisations and deaths all spiked further in France on Tuesday as the nation braced for additional restrictions that President Emmanuel Macron may unveil innationally televised speech on Wednesday.Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Jean Castex refused to rule out local lockdowns while French media reported that curfews in COVID hotspots were under consideration.France's five largest cities - Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse and Lille - are among nine metropolitan ar