‘Hard choices’ as France weighs new virus clampdown

French officials said Tuesday that tougher restrictions are looming to counter an alarming surge in Covid-19 cases, with doctors warning that many hospitals are just days away from being overrun with patients. “We have to prepare for difficult decisions,” Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told France Inter radio. “At some point we have to make hard choices… as our neighbours have,” he said, referring to tough new measures announced for Italy,…