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Wearing white laboratory coat and hair net, French President Emmanuel Macron tours the production site in Chartres, southwest of Paris, of Novo Nordisk . In a deal to be sealed officially with Macron today, Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk will invest 2.1 billion euros ($2.3 billion) in this existing facility to expand capacity for a blockbuster anti-obesity drug. Novo Nordisk is the European Union's most valuable company with market capitalisation of around $460 billion, mostly thanks to growing use of its anti-diabetes drugs as weight-loss derivatives. IMAGES
Thousands of people march in Paris in defense of the public health service, demanding an end to bed closures in hospitals. "Austerity kills", warns one sign. IMAGES
Parisians already had to cope with a heatwave, and now they have to wear masks in the capital's busiest areas, such as Rue Montorgueil, in order to stop the coronavirus from bouncing back. IMAGES
Faced with an increase in Covid cases in France, wearing a mask is now compulsory in enclosed public places, and could cost offenders 135 euros. Images in a pedestrian street in Lille IMAGES
Scuffles break out in Paris, on the Esplanade des Invalides, during a protest by medical staff asking for better work conditions. After being pelted with projectiles, the police responded with tear gas. IMAGES
"You count your euros, we count our dead". Several thousand people gather in front of the French Health Ministry in Paris, before marching to the Invalides and the National Assembly, to demand more resources for public hospitals and the entire health system. IMAGES
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