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"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
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
Paris, Apr 17 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Christophe Petit-Tesson) French health workers paid tribute on Saturday in front of the Ministry of Health to their work colleagues who have committed suicide during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis in France.According to the Internal Doctors union, a doctor has committed suicide every 18 days since January 2021 due to working conditions amid the Covid-19 crisis.FOOTAGE OF THE TRIBUTE.
"Work, consume and shut up": about 200 demonstrators protest in the third arrondissement of Paris against a new coronavirus lockdown. IMAGES
Berlin Sep 1 (EFE), (Camera: Rodrigo Zuleta).- Ecuador's Health Minister Juan Carlos Zevallos said that no country would overcome the pandemic without the help of other countries.SOUNDBITES OF ECUADOR'S HEALTH MINISTER JUAN CARLOS ZEVALLOS DURING AN INTERVIEW WITH EFE IN BERLIN:"I think that safety measures are much more developed in Ecuador rather than in Berlin. The use of masks in Ecuador is close to 100%, practically all people use masks.""There is also a difference regarding the requirement of being tested negative in a PCR test for all those people who enter Ecuador. This is something that is not compulsory in Germany. These are significant differences that I have found.""The possibility of international cooperation is the solution to the pandemic. Any country or city will overcome the pandemic on its own. The virus has expanded and the level of spread is so high than it is impossible to stop it without help. That is why international cooperation is very useful."
Some 400,000 new cases of COVID-19 were reported over the weekend and the new coronavirus pandemic shows no sign of slowing down, says World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. IMAGES of a WHO press conference