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A French ambulance workers organization has asked the government for permission to work in "reduced" mode for non-urgent transport because of a lack of ambulance personnel
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Health authorities in Lyon say that they’re struggling with hospital admissions for Covid-19 and that the latest wave of patients needing treatment are younger and unvaccinated.
40 percent of ICU beds at the city’s Lyon Sud hospital are occupied by Covid-19 patients and numbers are growing.
Staff are reported to be exhausted and the hospital is having trouble recruiting new interns.
Generally in France , hospital occupancy for coronavirus cases is stable at around 10,500 with 2,224 patients in intensive care.
Around a fifth of the 58 million french people eligible to be vaccinated are not yet protected at all or have had just one shot.
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Migrant row-The French Interior Minister has accused the U.K. Home Secretary of plotting “financial blackmail” and violating international maritime law as the row over efforts to prevent migrants from crossing the English Channel by boat deepens.
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A 60 year old man is in hospital after being shot during a wild boar hunt in the Var
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The Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin is to visit Saint-Raphaël in the Var today.
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A man has died after suffering from a heart attack on the tramline in Nice. Emergency services intervened at around 10am on Wednesday morning on line 2 of the tramway at the stop near the administrative centre.
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The trial of twenty defendants alleged to have been involved in the Paris attacks of November 13, 2015 has got underway this afternoon
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Two people have died and two have been left injured after a shooting in Marseille. The shooting took place in two different districts of the city and for the moment, are not connected.
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A motorcyclist has been seriously injured in an accident in Cap d'Antibes. The accident occurred on Tuesday evening at around 6pm when local residents heard a terrible noise.
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The body of a woman in her thirties has been discovered in Cannes in the early hours of this morning. Reports say that her partner, who has been taken into police custody, has stated that she had jumped from a sixth floor window during an argument
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The Elysée has announced that the national tribute to Jean-Paul Belmondo will take place on Thursday, September 9th at the Invalides in the French capital. T
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France’s Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot has announced that France will pay a tribute to legendary actor Jean-Paul Belmondo who died on Monday at the age of 88. Following the news of Belmondo’s death French President Emmanuel Macron referred to a “national treasure” adding that “we all found a part of us in him”.
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The French government has announced that the requirement to produce a health pass will be removed for entry to shopping centres of over 20,000 square metres in certain departments
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Meteo France has placed the Alpes-Maritimes on a yellow weather warning with "thunderstorms" forecast.
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France's Director of General Health Jérome Salomon has claimed that the number of covid cases in France has “dropped by 20% in one week”. For several days, the number of cases and hospitalized patients has been falling, possibly signaling the end of the fourth wave.
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