TOPSHOT - An employee of Lyon-Sud hospital waits in a corridor in front of a placard reading ?Thank You?, on January 25, 2021 in the intensive care unit of the hospital in Pierre-Benite. - Stubbornly high new rates for infections, hospitalisations and Covid deaths fuelled fears France may need another full lockdown, which would be the third, inflicting yet more devastation on businesses and daily lives. The president of the scientific council set up to advise the government on the pandemic pleaded on January 24, 2021 for a swift decision. (Photo by JEFF PACHOUD / AFP)