400 miles of traffic jams in Paris as wealthy head to countryside to sit out lockdown in second homes

View of traffic jams in Paris as traffic records have been broken

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French media report there was a mass exodus from people seeking to swap cramped apartment living for the countryside.

The exodus is reminiscent of the mass movement of people out of Paris in March, just prior to the first national lockdown.

On Thursday, France reported 47,637 new cases of the coronavirus and 250 new deaths.