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The mayor of Nice would like to reduce the flow of tourists to his city for now Image caption: The mayor of Nice would like to reduce the flow of tourists to his city for now

The mayor of Nice says the southern city and its surrounding area need either a weekend lockdown or a local tightening of the nationwide curfew to combat coronavirus figures that are the worst in France.

Christian Estrosi says visitors, including many from abroad, are still flocking to Nice and this needs to be suspended without restricting economic activity.

"The weather is nice, everybody rushes to come here. A weekend lockdown would put a stop to that, without halting economic activity in the city," he told French radio.

"We will be happy to receive lots of tourists this summer, once we win this battle, but it is better to have a period while we say 'do not come here, this is not the moment'."

The whole of France is already under a daily 12-hour curfew which starts at 18:00 (17:00 GMT).

"We need strong measures that go beyond the nationwide 6pm curfew, either a tighter curfew, or a partial and time-specific lockdown. A weekend lockdown would make sense," he says.

France's Health Minister, Olivier Véran, said on Saturday he was requesting stricter measures in the Alpes-Maritime region in which Nice is situated.

New weekly cases in the area are triple the national average, according to Covidtracker.fr.

France has so far avoided imposing a third nationwide lockdown to fight the virus.