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epa08775732 People wearing protective face masks walk near Notre-Dame Cathedral, in Paris, France, 26 October 2020. France is in the midst of a second wave of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, recording a new high of 50,000 daily new cases - although Jean-Francois Delfraissy of France's Scientific Council estimates that bew Covid cases are rising by a rate closer to 100,000 per day. France has currently placed 45 million of its citizen across several 'departments' (counties) under a night-time curfew prohibiting leaving one's house between 9pm and 6am. French President Emmanuel Macron is convening a defense council on 27 October to draft new measures to battle the rise in Covid-19 cases. EPA/IAN LANGSDON