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French Prime Minister Jean Castex is expected in Nice tomorrow for the national tribute to the victims of the attack in Nice on 29 October
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Nearly 60,000 new Covid-19 cases were reported in the last 24 hours in France, almost 20,000 more than on Wednesday, making France the country with the highest number of cases in Europe.
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The Monégasque government has confirmed on Thursday evening that after concerns expressed by some press outlets and social networks regarding changes to the current health restrictions and the current health situation in the Principality the move to introduce a national lockdown in Monaco “is not relevant at the moment”.
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The director-general of the Regional Health Agency for the Ile-de-France area has said that people must "massively reduce" their social interactions. Speaking on French television this morning, Aurelien Rousseau said that people seem to be "less afraid" of the coronavirus than during the first wave
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Following the attack that killed three people in a church in Nice, the mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi, has called for the suspension of the Schengen agreements which allow travel without border controls in 26 European countries.
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Following the knife attack in Nice on the 29th October at the Basilique Notre Dame a national homage is to take place at 10.30am on Saturday 7th November at the "Colline du Château" in Nice.
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Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi is calling for confinement to be made more stringent. He said that this is essential for the "proper functioning and survival of our health system".
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MP of the Alpes Maritimes Eric Ciotti has requested to France’s Health Minister the transfer of the perpetrator of the Nice knife attack to another hospital in France.
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France’s Minister of Health Olivier Véran has expressed his anger to MPs in parliament on Tuesday after the state of the “health emergency” in France was extended until December the 14th due to not enough LREM MPs being present during the debate.
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Searches are continuing to locate a private plane which lost contact with Cannes Mandelieu Airport last night.
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Four men have been arrested this morning in Val-d'Oise as part of the investigation into the Nice attack.
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France has recorded a new record of Covid-19 contaminations and an unprecedented level of mortality since April. For the first time since April 20th, French hospitals have recorded more than 400 victims of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours.
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Nice mayor Christian Estrosi has requested that a national tribute be arranged in the coming days to the three victims of the attack in Nice last Thursday
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France’s Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin has this morning spoken to French media about the terrorist threat in France, which is "currently as high as in 2015".
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As with the first of every month in France certain changes are to be introduced including the price of gas, tobacco and a capping on bank charges for the most vulnerable customers.
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As children return to school across France this morning a tribute to history and geography teacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded on October 16th after showing caricatures of Muhammed to his students, is to be paid with the reading of a text by Jean Jaureès, which was first published in 1888 by the then youngest politician of France.
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