As vacationers throw caution to the wind, France sees new wave of Covid-19

Among the nightspots where now-infected people congregated, is one that skirted a national coronavirus ban on nightclubbing by converting itself into a late-night watering hole

As the sun went down, their partying got into full flow, with an unwanted guest: the coronavirus.

An outbreak among 18- to 25-year-olds at a seaside resort on the Brittany coast is crystallising fears that the virus is flaring again in France, on the back of vacationers throwing Covid-19 caution to the summer winds.

With 72 infections by Wednesday mostly among that age group uncovered in a week of furious contact tracing, the cluster on the Quiberon peninsula was thought to have originated with a supermarket summer worker who partied with others at a nightspot.

It is becoming a textbook case of the