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02.02.2022 / 10:47

France eases Covid curbs, including outdoor mask-wearing

France has begun lifting coronavirus restrictions including mandatory outdoor mask-wearing in a bid to ease citizens' daily lives, dividing opinion as the country only last month reported record Covid-19 infections.

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French teachers strike over 'chaotic' Covid-19 strategy for schools

Tens of thousands of French teachers angry with the government's Covid-19 rules took part in a one-day strike today to demand better protection for pupils and staff against infection.

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Up to 10% of new Covid French cases suspected to be Omicron

The Omicron coronavirus variant is now suspected to be responsible for up to 10% of new confirmed Covid-19 cases in France, according to the country's health minister.

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France: 5th wave is here, New Year's concerts and fireworks banned

The French flag flies from the Eiffel Tower.

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France bans flights from South Africa for 48 hours on new COVID variant

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French Prime Minister Jean Castex tests positive for Covid-19

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France tightens Covid rules with health pass

French cinemas, museums and sports venues have begun asking visitors to furnish proof of Covid-19 vaccination or a negative test as the country, which is in the throes of a fourth wave of infections, rolled out a controversial vaccine passport system.

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France tightens rules for some arrivals from Europe

France has announced it will require people arriving from some European countries who are not fully vaccinated to show a negative Covid test taken within the previous 24 hours.

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France wants tougher punishment for those who attack police

PARIS – France’s prime minister is proposing tougher and faster punishment for people who attack the police, as the government pays a national tribute to the latest police officer killed in the line of duty.

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France suspends all Brazil flights due to virus variants

PARIS – France’s prime minister has announced the suspension of all flights between Brazil and France amid concerns over coronavirus variants.

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Medical workers conflicted by France's lockdown that isn't

PARIS – When nurse Anaelle Aeschliman started her 12-hour night shift caring for unconscious patients with COVID-19, the French prime minister was announcing new restrictions to combat the resurgent coronavirus epidemic in Paris.

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France to announce new virus restrictions in Paris region

PARIS – France is set to announce new coronavirus restrictions on Thursday, including a potential lockdown in the Paris region and in the north of the country, as the number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units spikes.

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French PM warns country may be facing ‘sort of 3rd wave’ of COVID-19

French Prime Minister Jean Castex warned on Tuesday that France may be facing “a sort of third wave” of COVID-19 due to the emergence of virus variants, notably the strain first observed in Britain. French Health Minister Olivier Véran also commented on the suspension of AstraZeneca vaccines following reports of blood clots and other side effects in other countries, calling it a “precious tool” in France’s vaccine strategy.

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Canada, EU nations limit travel activities amid mutated Covid infection surge

EU nation limit travel activitiesFrance, Germany and the Czech Republic said Friday they will restrict in-and outbound travel amid concerns about more contagious strains of the coronavirus spreading across the European Union.French Prime Minister Jean Castex said travel between France and non-EU countries would stop from Monday, while all travelers from the EU would be tested for the coronavirus.More transmissible UK and South African strains pose a "great risk" of a surge in virus cases in the republic, he warned, adding that all big shopping malls will be shut and clients of smaller ones will be spaced further out starting next week.The German government said it would bar most travelers from countries reporting more contagious coronavirus

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France shutting borders to countries outside European Union after new Covid strain fears

European Union. Prime Minister Jean Castex has announced the move in a desperate bid to stop the spread of new variants of the coronavirus.

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France to close borders to non-EU countries on Sunday, except for essential travel

French Prime Minister Jean Castex has said the country will close its borders to non-European Union countries for all except essential travel, while stepping back from a widely anticipated third lockdown.

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Class-action lawsuit claims French police discriminate often

PARIS – In a first for France, six nongovernmental organizations launched a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against the French government for alleged systemic discrimination by police officers carrying out identity checks.

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France extends UK border restrictions as new coronavirus variant spreads

France is to keep in place restrictions on its border with Britain "until further notice", Prime Minister Jean Castex said Thursday, after the country confirmed two clusters of the mutant UK coronavirus variant.France closed its border with Britain on December 20 after the emergence of a new UK strain of the disease, thought to be far more contagious, and "this will be extended until further notice", Castex said.Also Read | The faces behind the farmer revoltOnly certain categories of people, including truck drivers, are allowed through the border providing they have can show a negative PCR test during the three preceding days.Also Thursday, the French health ministry reported that two clusters of the UK variant had been detected in a care

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Countries that have blocked travel from UK over new coronavirus strain

Britain as London said Sunday the spread of a more-infectious new coronavirus strain was now "out of control".Here are the countries that have announced travel bans so far.FranceFrance said Sunday it will halt all travel from Britain for 48 hours from midnight, including journeys "related to goods transport by road, air, sea or rail".The ban on everything but unaccompanied freight comes as companies scramble to shift merchandise across the Channel with days to go until Britain leaves the EU trade bloc.Prime Minister Jean Castex's office said the 48-hour period would offer time to coordinate a joint EU response that would ultimately allow travel from the UK to resume "with compulsory testing on departure".GermanyGermany will halt all air

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France prepares for 'widespread' Covid vaccinations in early 2021

France is aiming to launch a widespread Covid-19 vaccination campaign between April and June next year, President Emmanuel Macron has said.

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Coronavirus lockdown in France to remain in effect until Dec: Prime Minister

Jean Castex has announced that the nationwide stay-at-home regime will remain in effect amid still disturbing indicators of the COVID-19 virus' evolution in the country."Together with the President of the Republic [Emmanuel Macron], we decided this morning in the Council of defense and national security to keep unchanged, at least for the next fifteen days, the rules of lockdown intended to fight against # COVID19," Castex tweeted late on Thursday.The prime minister said that the impact from the second coronavirus outbreak is tough, specifying in a separate tweet that up to 500 COVID-19 patients have died each day over the past week, which makes each one in four of the deaths in France due to the pandemic.

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France marks 5 years since deadly attacks on Bataclan, cafes

PARIS – In silence and mourning, France marked five years since 130 people were killed by Islamic State extremists who targeted the Bataclan concert hall, Paris cafes and the national stadium in a series of coordinated attacks.It was France’s deadliest peacetime attack, deeply shaking the nation. It led to intensified French military action against extremists abroad and a security crackdown at home.Five years later, Prime Minister Jean Castex was leading silent ceremonies Friday at the multiple sites targeted by coordinated attackers around the French capital on Nov.

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French health minister's home searched in Covid probe

French police searched the home of Health Minister Olivier Véran on Thursday as part of an inquiry into the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis, his office said.

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Covid curfews on cities in France being considered

The French cabinet will meet today to discuss further measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic, including the possibility of imposing curfews.

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French prime minister targeted by lawsuit over virus policy

PARIS – A group of COVID-19 survivors and patients' families is suing French Prime Minister Jean Castex, accusing him of potentially dangerous and contradictory management of the virus crisis even as infections have multiplied in recent weeks.Castex and the government have pushed to reopen the economy and “learn to live with the virus,” refusing to impose new nationwide lockdowns as hospitals in some French regions start to fill up with virus patients again.Lawyer Fabrice Di Vizio said he filed the lawsuit Thursday on behalf of the France Coronavirus Victims group in the Court of Justice of the Republic, a special court for prosecuting government ministers.

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France’s daily coronavirus case total surpasses 10,000 for the first time

France has had 10,561 new confirmed COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, health authorities said on Saturday, a new daily record as the number topped 10,000 for the first time.The latest daily count, surpassing the previous record of 9,843 new infections reported on Thursday, highlights a resurgence of the disease in France.The rise led the government to outline additional measures on Friday to avert a return to the general lockdown put in place earlier in the year. Prime Minister Jean Castex promised steps to speed up tests and toughen local measures in high-infection zones.

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France's daily Covid-19 cases pass 10,000 for first time

France has had 10,561 new confirmed Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, health authorities said today, a new daily record as the number topped 10,000 for the first time.

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France records 10,000 coronavirus cases in terrifying record outbreak

coronavirus in a single day for the first time.The latest daily count of 10,561 new infections, surpassing the previous record of 9,843 new infections reported on Thursday, highlights a resurgence of the disease in France.The rise led the government to outline additional measures on Friday to avert a return to the general lockdown put in place earlier in the year.

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France makes masks mandatory in Paris from Friday as Covid-19 cases surge

Paris: Face masks must be worn everywhere in the French capital Paris from Friday morning in order to curb a surge in coronavirus infections, police said on Thursday.The measure applies to all pedestrians as well as cyclists in Paris and its suburbs in an area that includes three neighbouring departments that form the Petite Couronn inner ring around Paris, a densely populated area with a total population of nearly seven million people.Motorists will not have to wear a mask inside their car."The deterioration of the health situation...has led the prefect to take this strong measure in the interest of the population," the Paris police prefecture said in a statement.Earlier on Thursday, Prime Minister Jean Castex said the government would

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The dilemma of Covid-19’s second wave

Covid-19. Yet he finds the idea of isolating the nation again so off-putting that he compared it to a nuclear deterrent: “I certainly don’t want to use it." French Prime Minister Jean Castex, was equally blunt: “We won’t survive, economically and socially."At the other end of the globe, New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern has warned that it just takes one mistake to be exposed to the virus again.

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Britain rolls out new mask rules as Europe copes with coronavirus uptick

masks in England came into effect Friday, with people entering shops, banks and supermarkets now required to wear face coverings, while Romania reported a record for daily coronavirus infections and France announced mandatory testing for arrivals from 16 countries, including the United States.People in England can be fined as much as 100 pounds ($171 CAD) by police if they refuse.

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Jobs, ecology key to France's $110 billion virus rescue plan

PARIS – France’s new prime minister on Wednesday laid out 100 billion euros ($110 billion) in new spending to rescue the virus-battered economy from its worst crisis since World War II.The money will notably go to creating jobs for young people facing the worst employment prospects in years, reducing French carbon emissions, and protecting from collapse the small businesses that give rural France its charm.“The crisis highlighted our difficulties and our failures,” Prime Minister Jean Castex told lawmakers.

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French bus driver dies after brutal attack by passengers who refused to wear face masks

A French bus driver has died after he was savagely beaten by passengers who refused to wear face masks.Prime Minister Jean Castex confirmed Philippe Monguillot’s death on Friday.Monguillot was hospitalized and declared brain dead after the July 5 attack at a bus stop in Bayonne, in southwest France.His 18-year-old daughter, Marie Monguillot, told Agence France-Presse that doctors and the family decided it was time “to let him go” and take him off life support.Monguillot was dragged off his No. 810 bus and violently beaten and kicked in the head after he asked four passengers to wear face masks, the Bayonne prosecutor said.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0