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French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announces that the country's healthcare workers who are managing the Covid-19 crisis will receive a tax-free bonus of €1,500. (COMPLETE VID1QM0X6_EN) SOUNDBITE
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
Three Nobel Prize winners, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Jules Hoffmann and Jean Marie Lehn are vaccinated against Covid at Strasbourg University Hospital, on the first day vaccinations of over-75s and vulnerable people. IMAGES
The English variant, presumably more contagious, accounts for about 1% of positive Covid-19 tests in France, according to the preliminary results of a survey conducted over two days last week, says French's Health Minister Olivier Véran. SOUNDBITE
Two patients from Lyon suffering from Covid-19 are transferred to La-Roche-sur-Yon, in western France, in anticipation of a possible future saturation of intensive care units in the Lyon area. IMAGES
Healthcare workers at Mt Sinai hospital in New York City hold a vigil for their colleagues who died from coronavirus while fighting on the frontlines of the pandemic. IMAGES