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France: New coronavirus variant detected in Brittany
The health department of the region said on Tuesday that scientists are working on a new variant of the coronavirus that has been discovered in Brittany in western France and may have evaded the test more successfully than other versions. In a cluster of a hospital in Brittany, 8 cases of new mutations […]
Read MoreFrance: Consumption of cheese hits record level
Data for the entire 2020 show that French cheese sales have soared. BFM TV reported that as restaurants have been closed for several months, the consumption of restaurants and bars has dropped significantly, but according to data recently released by FranceAgriMer-Kantar, each cheese can be profited by increasing locked sales. Cheese made from […]
Read MoreFrance: Theatre occupations continue as protests escalate
Since Monday, students and workers from the French Ministry of Culture occupied about 30 theaters, opera houses and other venues. This is a small but expanding movement to oppose the closure of Covid-19 and propose reforms to the compensation scheme. The government has extended its aid package to the cultural sector, but believes […]
Read MoreFrance relaxes travel restrictions to 7 non-EU countries
The French government announced that France will relax travel regulations to and from seven non-European countries (including the United Kingdom). The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated: “From Friday, there will no longer be a need to prove a compelling reason to travel to and from Australia, South Korea, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, […]
Read MoreFrench hospitals send Covid-19 patients to Belgium
As the hospital reached a saturation point, coronavirus patients in Hauts-de-France, the northernmost region of northern France, were transferred to Belgium. The Regional Health Service (ARS) said that facilities in some towns and cities in Belgium have provided intensive care beds to ease the pressure on the overcrowded hospitals in France. ARS said […]
Read MoreFrance to launch its own Covid vaccine soon
The head of the National Institute of Medicine said that the Covid-19 vaccine made in France is about to be launched. Gilles Bloch, Chief Executive Officer of the National Institutes of Health (Inserm), told France Info on Wednesday morning: “In the next few months, we will have a French vaccine against Covid-19.” He […]
Read MoreParis: Hospitals reduce non Covid-19 procedures
As the number of coronavirus patients requiring intensive care may overwhelm the intensive care unit (ICU) network, hospitals in the Paris area have been ordered to cut routine surgical and medical procedures by 40%. “This is a very stressful situation,” regional health chief Aurelien Rousseau told AFP on Monday. The region of Île-de-France, […]
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