Covid-19
France’s Macron expected to announce easing of COVID rules in coming days – Minister
French President Emmanuel Macron will probably make an announcement on plans to relax COVID-19 restrictions in the next few days, Employment Minister, Elisabeth Borne, told BFM TV on Tuesday.
France, the euro zone’s second-biggest economy, started its third national lockdown at the end of March after suffering a spike in COVID-19 deaths and case numbers.
Macron is hoping the effects of that lockdown, along with an accelerated vaccination campaign, will improve France’s COVID-19 figures, which would then allow certain businesses and leisure activities – such as outdoors dining – to reopen in mid-May.
French schools reopened on Monday after a three-week closure.
Macron has said that while an open-air bar and restaurant terraces may reopen in mid-May, indoor venues will not re-open before June and only in regions where the COVID-19 figures have dropped sufficiently to allow this.
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