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While visiting a vaccination center in Fleury-Mérogis, near Paris, French Prime Minister Jean Castex says he hopes to avoid having to take "even more difficult measures" if French people remain "extremely careful". For Castex, the prospect of easing restrictions in mid-April is still far off because "there is still very strong pressure on hospitals". SOUNDBITE
Lima, Jan 30 (EFE).- Hundreds rallied in the Peruvian capital, Lima, on Saturday to call for the government to relax coronavirus-related restrictions. The rally's main slogan were "Death to quarantine", "Freedom, insurgency", "No work, no health" and "No to the new world order". (Camera: MIKHAIL HUACAN).SHOT LIST: A PROTEST OVER CORONAVIRUS RESTRICTIONS IN LIMA, PERU.
In what Italy's prime minister said was 'not an easy decision,' PM Giuseppe Conte has put the country on lockdown for the holidays. Business Insider reports Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte told reporters that experts fear there will be a jump in COVID-19 cases over Christmas. Italy wasn't the only European country to tighten restrictions over the holidays — the UK and Germany have both announced heightened coronavirus restrictions. Johns Hopkins University data reports that as of Saturday, Italy had recorded over 1.9 million confirmed cases of coronavirus since the pandemic began. Thus far, nearly 68,000 deaths from COVID-19 have been reported in Italy.
French so-called "non-essential" shops should soon find out whether they can reopen or not: a Defence council starts at the Elysee Palace, where President Macron and his ministers are expected to take several decisions, two weeks after the start of a second lockdown and before a new PM presser later in the day. IMAGES
"Work, consume and shut up": about 200 demonstrators protest in the third arrondissement of Paris against a new coronavirus lockdown. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Jean Castex meets with political leaders, to discuss the hardening of health measures in relation to the Covid-19 crisis, which could include a new confinement. IMAGES to complete VID8TY667_EN
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