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French Health Minister Olivier Veran has said that there is a "threat of resumption of the epedemic from this summer". Speaking during a visit to a vaccination centre in a suburb of Paris this afternoon, he said that the threat of the delta coronavirus variant "is real"
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The Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regional Health Agency has warned of the increase, in one week, in the proportion of people tested positive for the covid Delta variant.
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The French government is preparing a bill for compulsory vaccination against covid for caregivers, although it could ultimately target a larger population. In a letter addressed to MPs the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, expressed his wish to “open the debate on obligatory vaccination for health workers in the fight against covid and whether or not it should be extended more widely”.
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The Regional Health Agency for the PACA region is launching a large-scale communication campaign to encourage the population to get vaccinated
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The Regional Health Agency has announced the identification of a cluster of the covid Delta variant in Antibes. In what is being described as a “wake up call” the mayor of Antibes has taken the opportunity to remind everyone that you need to be vaccinated to eradicate the Covid-19 epidemic. 200 people were tested.
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Due to the Covid-19 epidemic, several measures that were expected to take effect on January 1st were postponed. Today July 1st will see the following measures introduced;
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The President of the Scientific Council Jean-Francois Delfraissy has said that France will probably have a "gradual rise" of the delta variant in July and August.
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France’s health minister has revealed that the delta variant of covid now represents one fifth of cases in France, double last week’s estimate. While France is seeing an overall fall in cases, the highly infectious variant that originated in India is gradually becoming more dominant.
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In France the last stage of the end of lockdown begins today Wednesday June 30th, with restrictions largely being lifted in places open to the public seeing bars, cafes and restaurants able to return to 100% capacity.
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The French Ministry of the Interior has released the final turnout figures for last Sunday's second round of the regional elections
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The mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi has said that should the health situation deteriorate in the region due to the Delta variant he would be in favour of “introducing a health pass to go to a restaurant”.
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The pressure on hospitals continues to drop in France, despite the Delta covid variant. According to official figures published on Monday June 28th
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President Macron has been visiting the Hauts-de-France region in the north of France today. During his visit he congratulated Xavier Bertrand on his re-election as head of the regional council. President Macron was in the region to inaugurate a new factory built with Chinese investment.
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Météo France has placed four departments of the Auvergne Rhone Alpes region on an orange weather warning with thunderstorms forecast, hail storms and heavy rainfall with the risk of flooding
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Police in Marseille have reportedly arrested a man suspected of killing his ex-girlfriend and another man.
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