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Added on the 13/03/2021 12:46:30 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Dozens of shoppers rush into the Printemps department store in Paris for the start of the winter sales amid record numbers of Covid cases. IMAGES
Activist Greta Thunberg says that a ruling by Europe's top rights court that Switzerland was not doing enough to tackle climate change is "only the beginning". SOUNDBITE
French government spokesman Gabriel Attal announces that a "detailed timetable for the gradual lifting of the latest measures" against the Covid epidemic will be announced by ministers Jean Castex and Olivier Véran. SOUNDBITE
The rising number of cases of Covid-19 in Europe is of "grave concern", warns the WHO Europe regional director Hans Kluge. IMAGES
A Covid-19 patient in their sixties has been transferred to Marseille from Corsica by military helicopter, after hospital occupancy in Bastia, one of the island's two main cities, passed 79 percent on Tuesday. IMAGES
The US says it will maintain restrictions on international travel into the country, sidestepping European pressure, as cases rise of the Covid-19 Delta variant. "We will maintain existing travel restrictions at this point," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki tells reporters at a briefing in Washington. SOUNDBITE