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Added on the 04/01/2021 18:08:36 - Copyright : France 24 EN
"Shops, certain cultural and sporting activities, and (cafe) terraces" could reopen "around mid-May" in France depending on the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country, Prime Minister Jean Castex says. SOUNDBITE
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
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arrives to give evidence at Britain's Covid-19 inquiry. During the pandemic he was Britain's Finance Minister, and has faced criticism for his implementation of a scheme called 'Eat Out To Help Out'. Designed to revive demand for restaurants after they were closed in Covid lockdowns, the scheme has been criticised for potentially helping spread the disease, with senior scientists saying they weren't consulted. 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
Hundreds of opponents of the Covid-19 vaccine pass gather near the Eiffel Tour in Paris to protest against the controversial bill set to be greenlit by parliament and implemented by the end of January. IMAGES
French professor Didier Raoult, director of the Marseille university hospital and microbiologist, has been sanctioned with a "reprimand" by the disciplinary chamber of the Order of Physicians of New Aquitaine, who analysed two complaints filed against him in late 2020. IMAGES
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