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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
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne holds a meeting on Covid-19 via videoconference with the prefects and directors of regional health agencies, as Europe currently experiences a seventh wave of the epidemic. IMAGES
Sydney, Oct 4 (EFE).- Australian authorities announced plans to ease lockdown rules in Sydney, the epicenter of the third wave of covid-19, on October 11, after reaching 70 percent of its population are fully vaccinated. Sydney, Australia's most populous city, has confined some 5.4 million residents under strict stay-at-home orders since June 26. (Camera: ROCIO OTOYA). B-ROLL OF THE CITY OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, UNDER COVID-19 LOCKDOWN.
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
The Promenade des Anglais in Nice is almost deserted during this first weekend of confinement as the region battles an increasingly worrying number of Covid-19 cases. IMAGES
Rome (Italy), Feb 22 (EFE), (Camera: Álvaro Padilla).- Hundreds of businessmen and workers of the hospitality sector demonstrated on Monday in Rome urging the government to ease coronavirus restrictions, among them the closure of bars and restaurants during the night and the limitation of its capacity. FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST IN ROME.