{"id":14734,"date":"2026-05-14T13:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/14734\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T13:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:18:09","slug":"fact-check-no-france-has-not-announced-a-lockdown-after-24-hour-surge-in-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/14734\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact-Check: No, France Has Not Announced a Lockdown After 24 Hour Surge in COVID-19 Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"

How did we find out the truth?: A keyword search for ‘coronavirus cases France’ gave us no relevant or credible reports or announcements from official sources.<\/p>\n

Similarly, a search for ‘France lockdown’ also yielded no relevant results, showing that there are no credible sources which corroborate the viral claim.<\/p>\n

France, however, is monitoring with 11 people affected by hantavirus, one of whom was aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship where the outbreak originated, the New York Times<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

Another British cruise ship in France’s Bordeaux, where the vessel with 1,700 people on board, was placed on lockdown over norovirus cases, Times of India<\/a> said, and not coronavirus, as claimed.<\/p>\n

French officials clarify: Responding to one of the viral claims about the lockdown, the French embassy in India shared a post showing people gathering in public in Paris.<\/p>\n

French officials told The Quint about the misinformation surrounding this alleged lockdown, stating that “no lockdown in place in France, neither due to Hantavirus nor due to Covid-19 nor due to any other situation.”<\/p>\n

Regarding the hantavirus outbreak, the French Ministry of Health said they were monitoring those exposed to the virus. “If symptoms appear in a monitored individual, they will be immediately reclassified as a suspected case and placed in the secure “Epidemic and Biological Risks” (REB) pathway,” French diplomatic sources told us.<\/p>\n

Conclusion: Claims about a lockdown due to a 24-hour spike in COVID-19 cases in France are false.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How did we find out the truth?: A keyword search for ‘coronavirus cases France’ gave us no relevant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3004,10971,11337,11336,5,11335,9949,11338],"class_list":{"0":"post-14734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-fake-news","9":"tag-covid-19","10":"tag-fact-check","11":"tag-false-claim","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-france-coronavirus-deaths","14":"tag-hantavirus","15":"tag-webqoof"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}