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Amid instances of people flouting confinement measure introduced last month to contain the Covid-19 virus epidemic, Paris City Hall has tightened restrictions on the movement of residents, which until now prohibited all non-essential mobility except for brief exercise close to home, with a ban on jogging between 10am and 7pm.

After what appeared to be a peak over recent days, French fatalities among hospital patients from the Covid-19 virus rose further on Monday with 833 new deaths against Sunday's figures, bringing the total number of recorded deaths in hospitals in France since the outbreak began to 8,911.

Comments by two French health experts who suggested a vaccine for the Covid-19 coronavirus could be tested in Africa have been dismissed by World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as a 'disgrace', a hangover from the 'colonial mentality', when he also assured 'this will not happen'.

The health ministry data showed that 357 people died from COVID-19 in hospitals, compared with 441 in the previous 24 hours, taking the total toll in hospitals to 5,889.

When deaths from people in old age care facilities in France are added the overall figure is now 7,560.

Initial reports said the suspect was a 33-year-old Sudanese asylum seeker, arrested after the stabbings in Romans-sur-Isère in south-east France.

The Confrérie des Charitables de Saint-Éloi charity has carried on its duties through war and plague.

France's director general of health, Jérôme Salomon, also said at least 1,416 people had died at care homes since the start of the epidemic.

In all 160,000 police and gendarmes have been deployed across country to prevent the traditional grand départ on holiday.

In TV debate one doctor suggested trials in Africa to see if a tuberculosis vaccine would prove effective against coronavirus.