Concern about other virus scales when France opens up

In France, so far, 166,036 have been confirmed to be infected by the new corona virus and 23,327 have been confirmed dead, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.

The strained situation has forced the country to a shutdown that has been going on for six weeks - but now it is slowly starting to prepare to be able to cancel the quarantine on the eleventh of May.

But politicians in the city of Mulhouse in eastern France want two more weeks of isolation so that health care does not collapse. Mulhouse is the country's hardest hit city and has had the most stringent quarantine rules with a total curfew in the evenings and nights.

- We say that we have passed a first intensive wave. We have managed to keep track of the situation, it has dropped. But we must not let a second wave come, says Joy Mootien, intensive care physician in Mulhouse, and continues:

- We must maintain the safeguard measures and continue to be vigilant.

Fabrice Bozzi works as a pub in Mulhouse, which he describes as a "ghost town" since the pandemic struck.

- I think we will end up in an even deeper crisis than the one we have now with covid-19. People continue to be scared, and what we have lost we will never recover, says Fabrice Bozzi.

He tells SVT News that it will be harder to stay indoors as the weather gets warmer, and he suffers with those living in apartments without balconies.

A woman leaning out of the window of a large high-rise building is shouting to SVT's correspondent on the spot that the situation is "sis-like" but that it is just to like the situation.