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Added on the 11/05/2020 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Around 300 volunteer healthcare workers arrive at Orly aiport to head to the French overseas territories of Martinique and Guadeloupe where hospitals are overwhelmed with Covid-19 cases. IMAGES
Cannes (France), Jul 6 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Marco Álvarez San Román) Cannes kicked off its 74th edition on Tuesday with an unusual image: the control of the health certificate or the negative covid test at the entrances to the Palace of Festivals, which registered its first queues while finalizing the preparations for the opening gala.FOOTAGE OF THE PREPARATIONS FOR THE CANNES FESTIVAL IN CANNES, FRANCE
The first patients receive injections against Covid-19 in a large vaccination site that has just opened inside a convention centre at Disneyland Paris, normally Europe's biggest tourist attraction currently closed because of the pandemic. IMAGES
"Shops, certain cultural and sporting activities, and (cafe) terraces" could reopen "around mid-May" in France depending on the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country, Prime Minister Jean Castex says. SOUNDBITE
The peak of the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in France "appears to be behind us", Prime Minister Jean Castex says, announcing that travel restrictions will be relaxed from early next month. Castex tells reporters there has been a "drop in the circulation of the virus" over the last 10 days, confirming that restrictions confining people to a 10-kilometre (six-mile, ed) radius of their homes would be dropped from May 3. SOUNDBITE