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Moderna’s COVID vaccine to arrive in France on Monday: Castex

Editorial Bureau January 9, 2021

PARIS (FRANCE) – French Prime Minister Jean Castex said Moderna Inc’s COVID-19 shot will arrive in France on Monday. This comes as the nation has stepped up its vaccination drive after a slow beginning. Castex and Health Minister Olivier Veran visited a health centre in Tarbes,

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French ski resorts will only reopen based on COVID situation by January 20 – Minister

Editorial Bureau January 8, 2021

PARIS (FRANCE) – The French government will only allow ski resorts to reopen lifts if the COVID-19 situation by Jan. 20 improves or permits, a minister said on Friday. “The government’s decision on Jan. 20 must by guided only by the situation of the epidemic,” French junior tourism minister Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne said on BFM television. […]

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French PM is hopeful that more vaccines will get approval soon

Editorial Bureau January 7, 2021

PARIS (FRANCE) – French Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Thursday that he was confident more vaccines would be approved in the coming weeks. Castex was speaking at a news conference on the COVID-19 situation in France.

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France’s Veran says he will extend vaccinations to firemen

Ren Leen January 5, 2021

PARIS (FRANCE) – Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Tuesday, said that France is broadening its COVID-19 vaccination rollout to firemen and will come to the aid of workers aged over 50. “We are going to amplify, accelerate and simplify our vaccinatiion strategy,” Veran told RTL radio. France on Monday increased its COVID-19 vaccination of […]

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France to give shot in the arm to inoculation drive

Editorial Bureau January 4, 2021

PARIS (FRANCE) – After an initial roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccine was slowed down by bureaucracy and government apathy, France has sought to bolster inoculations on Monday. It began vaccinating medical staff over the age of 50 after delivering just 516 COVID shots developed by Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech during the first week of a […]

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France faces no risk of shortage of goods because of UK border closure: Minister Beaune

Editorial Bureau December 23, 2020

PARIS (FRANCE) – French European Affairs Minister Clement Beaune said on Wednesday that there was no risk of shortage of goods in the country in the wake of a ban on freight coming from across the Channel because of a new mutated variant of the coronavirus. Much of the world shut its borders to Britain […]

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France plans to establish protocols to resume traffic to UK ‘in coming hours’

Editorial Bureau December 21, 2020

PARIS (FRANCE) – France aims to establish Europe-wide sanitary protocol measures “in the coming hours” to allow the resumption of traffic flows with the United Kingdom, transport minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari said on Monday.

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French culture minister vows to give more help for closed venues

Editorial Bureau December 11, 2020

PARIS (FRANCE) – French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot pledged an extra 35 million euros ($42 million) on Friday to bail out museums, cinemas and theatres left “stunned” by the extension of COVID-19 restrictions for at least three more weeks. She told BFM television the decision not to reopen museums, cinemas and theatres next Tuesday as […]

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Minister says France will not ‘sacrifice’ its fishermen regardless of which Brexit deal it is

Editorial Bureau December 8, 2020

PARIS (FRANCE) – Negotiations between Britain and the European Union over a post-Brexit trade deal are complicated and France will oppose any pact that “sacrifices” its fishermen, said French European Affairs Minister Clement Beaune on Tuesday. Beaune told RMC radio, reiterating that France would veto any agreement if it considers it as a

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Violence explodes during Paris protest

Editorial Bureau December 5, 2020

PARIS (FRANCE) – Dozens of hooded protesters launched projectiles at riot police, smashed up shop windows, torched cars and burned barricades during a demonstration in the French capital on Saturday against police violence. The police fired back volleys of tear gas. Thousands of people had began marching peacefully in Paris when the clashes erupted between […]