Thousands have taken to the streets in France to protest against President Emmanuel Macron's plans to force all health workers to get vaccinated and to introduce vaccine passport checks in almost all indoor settings.
Emmanuel Macron has mandated Covid vaccination for all French health workers and has introduced vaccine passports in many settings, effectively cutting off unvaccinated French people from their daily lives.
France is bringing forward by 10 days the lifting of a nationwide curfew amid falling numbers of daily positive Covid tests. Face mask guidelines are also expected to be eased sooner than expected.
Travel to France will be allowed from June 9th, but Brits who aren't fully vaccinated will need a "compelling reason" to visit the country and will be required to quarantine for a week if granted entry.
The French Parliament has voted against the introduction of domestic Covid vaccine passports, but officials seem determined to pass them into law. Another vote is expected to take place soon.
France is in lockdown again as cases and deaths spike. But look more closely and you find a spike in testing too, leaving the positive rate flat. Plus, excess deaths are negative. Is it in a pseudo-epidemic of testing?
Having previously claimed Kent Covid is "twice as deadly", PHE now backtracks and says it's no worse. This hasn't stopped Macron from blaming it for his new lockdown. But are the new variants evading our immune system?
Government regulations on Covid testing when travelling abroad add £360 to the cost of a trip to France – and that's if you use one of the cheapest PCR tests available in Britain!
The leaders of Italy and France have made it clear that they will "quickly resume" their countries' rollouts of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine when the European Medicines Agency gives the green light on Thursday.
