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French Prime Minister Jean Castex receives a dose of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine, as France resumes its vaccination programme with AstraZeneca's dose, following the European regulator's conclusions that the vaccine is "safe and effective". (COMPLETES VID96C8WU_EN) IMAGES
"The coming weeks will be tough, our hospital services will be put to the test", says French Prime Minister Jean Castex, as France extends the anti-Covid-19 curfew in place in nine cities to large parts of the country, taking to 46 million the number of people forced to stay indoors at night. SOUNDBITE
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
WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns a "toxic mix" at the global level of low vaccination coverage and testing rates, creating a fertile breeding ground for new Covid-19 variants to 'breed'. SOUNDBITE
Government officials arrive at Matignon for a meeting on the situation in Guadeloupe, where riots which broke out after an announcement that coronavirus jabs would be mandatory for all healthcare workers. Elite police and counter-terrorism officers were sent over the weekend in a bid to quell the violence. French Prime Minister Jean Castex, placed in isolation after one of his daughters tested positive, is video conferencing in. IMAGES des arrivées IMAGES of arrivals
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
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