French prime minister says coronavirus lockdown could last weeks

Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said a virtual lockdown in France imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus could last several more weeks and that his government was tightening restrictions even further."A lot of citizens want normalcy to return, but it's not happening soon," Philippe told TF1 news."We feel the lockdown measures that we have taken, and which we will toughen yet again... could last several weeks."