Paris bars could be shut as hospital beds fill with Covid patients – minister

Bars could be closed in Paris (Daniel Cole/AP)

France’s health minister has threatened to close bars and ban family gatherings in Paris as figures showed Covid-19 patients fill about one-third of the intensive care units in the city.

ICUs in other regions of France are also filling up with virus patients, as more than two months of increasing infections have spread to the country’s elderly and vulnerable populations.