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French Prime Minister Jean Castex has announced several new Covid-19 measures. Speaking after a Health Defence Council meeting earlier this evening he said that the government believes that the Omicron variant will spread very quickly, becoming dominant from the beginning of 2022
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A 27-year-old woman has died in a road accident this morning In Villeneuve-Loubet, she was at the time riding at electric scooter.
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New restrictions have been introduced by France to limit the spread of the covid variant Omicron. From tomorrow Saturday, December 18th at midnight. To travel to or from the United Kingdom, it will be necessary to have a "compelling reason".
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The French government has announced that it is reinstating compelling reasons for travel to and from the United Kingdom and is also increasing the requirement for departure and arrival testing on trips to and from the UK as well as introducing quarantine requirements
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Faced with the Omicron variant that has hit the United Kingdom hard, Paris has decided to tighten the rules for travellers returning from London. A test will now be mandatory to return to France.
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40,000 train passengers are to be reimbursed their tickets following cancellations due to strike action from tomorrow Friday 17th December.
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French Health Minister Olivier Veran has said that a health defence council meeting will take place on Friday in order to consider possible "additional measures" to fight the spread of Covid-19.
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Italy is tightening regulations and introducing strict restrictions on arrivals from tomorrow Thursday 16th December. The move comes due to the current spread of the Omicron variant.
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Today December 15th marks a key new step in the vaccine booster campaign in France with the health pass of many French people over 65 becoming void in the absence of a 3rd booster jab against covid.
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Train services across our region could be disrupted by industrial action during the Christmas holidays. Unions said today that they are calling for strike action which would affect services in the South-East for the three holiday weekends
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France's Scientific Council has warned that the new covid variant Omicron, is spreading "extremely fast". In its latest opinion the council said that the variant could experience a "rapid growth" in France "in the coming weeks".
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A 41 year old Algerian national has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for an attack on French soldiers in a suburb of Paris in 2017
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29,000 French towns including Nice, are to recover a total of 93 million euros amongst them in tourist taxes which were collected via the Airbnb platform.
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France's Minister of Health Olivier Véran has announced that "for the moment a new lockdown in France is absolutely not on the agenda".
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