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Added on the 24/07/2021 22:31:18 - Copyright : France 24 EN
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
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
Protesters build a barricade made of a burnt car in Gosier, on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe following days of rioting against Covid-19 measures. IMAGES
Hundreds of people gather in Paris to demonstrate against the health pass imposed by the government to counter the Covid-19 epidemic. IMAGES
Hundreds of demonstrators gather in Paris, at the call of the leading figure of the yellow vest movement, Jérôme Rodrigues, to demonstrate against the health pass imposed by the government to counter the Covid-19 epidemic. IMAGES