Nearly 600 deaths recorded in just 24 hours.

Lisa strictly enforcing the government's tough quarantine measures over the Easter holiday in Paris.

Railway stations, airports and major roads.

And we monitored to prevent people leaving the city, Lucy Williamson reports.

It's not only nations that thrive on liberty epidemics to at stations across Paris today, every journey began with a police check.

Freedom of movement, a new national threat you made it through.

He's on his way home to Brittany after two years abroad.

But even the smallest mistake means being turned away.

I wrote the wrong date, not today's date, and they told me I need to go back home to prepare another form.

I have to go to work, but I can't.

France carried out almost six million checks during the first fortnight of Confinement Farm or than neighboring Italy, and it's issued more than 400,000 fines.

But questions over when the confinement will end a growing France is tough approach to the confinement runs the risk of losing public support if it becomes too harsh or too long.

The interior minister has advised sensitivity in applying the rules and says the police operate differently in the countryside compared to the big cities in the poorest suburbs compared to the towns.

But the Paris police chief was forced to apologize today after taking a very different tone.

So once were hospitalized.

Today, the ones on life support now are the ones that didn't respect the quarantine when it began.

This is not a video game.

It's really there are dead people with few life support beds left in the Paris region.

Patients are being sent across the country for care.

This is now the worst hit region of France.

But is there light at the end of the tunnel?

You ask me this question Two days ago, I should say no.

There's a reduction in the inpatient murder to watch and the original CV, a patient that came for a sign, Of course, I imagine.

Half feet says there were no new admissions to intensive care in his hospital today, a first since the epidemic began the first glimpse of hope here after weeks of fear and frustration, the first sign that confinement might have worked.

Lucy Williamson, BBC News, Paris I just wanted to bring you some updated figures while we're talking about Europe.

In Spain, the number of recorded deaths from credit virus has fallen for a second successive day, so they picked on Thursday so far, with with 950 deaths.

The deaths overnight recorded Spain Friday Insight Saturday.

809 Total number of deaths In Spain there's there's a 11,744 just married Italy.

Number of new cases in Spain also showed a slowed slightly, with 7026 people taking part, testing positive taking at the number who have ate the infection to just over 124 1/2 1000.