Macron imposes new virus lockdown as French hospitals engulfed

Shares French President Emmanuel Macron announced Wednesday a new coronavirus lockdown until at least Dec.1, hoping to bring under control an outbreak that is poised to overwhelm hospitals in a matter of days. "The virus is spreading across France at a speed that even the most pessimistic did not predict," Macron said in a highly anticipated television address. Macron admitted that a curfew for Paris and other major cities imposed two weeks ago had failed to stop a second wave of cases that has sent the death toll in France to nearly 35,000. "As elsewhere in Europe, we are overwhelmed by a second wave that will probably be more difficult and deadly than the first,"...