Category: France
France, Italy and Spain all see new pandemic record infection figures
France: Covid-19: more than 90,000 cases in 24 hours in France. More...
France: confining the unvaccinated “not necessary in France” says Macron
President Emmanuel Macron believes that the health pass allows the French to be protected from the drastic measures taken in Austria.
More...Europe: all-time Covid infection record broken by growing winter superwave
Europe has broken through its all-time high for Covid cases, and is seeing sharp increases in infections right across the continent. More...
France: new coronavirus variant B.1.640 detected in Finistère, Brittany
A new coronavirus variant has been identified in a school in Finistère in October 2021, and named B.1.640. More...
France: Covid facemasks made mandatory in schools again
Schoolchildren in large parts of France were ordered Monday to again wear face masks in class, less than a month after being allowed to remove them, as the country tries to tamp down a surge in Covid cases. More...
Prediction: European Covid winter wave of 2021 will be the worst wave of the pandemic so far
This isn’t the most difficult prediction we have ever had to make, but there is no doubt that, despite huge vaccination campaigns across the continent, the winter wave now breaking over Europe will be their worst wave of the pandemic so far. More...
WHO: 500,000 deaths from Covid in Europe this winter
“The current pace of transmission across the 53 countries of the European Region is of grave concern,” said regional WHO head Hans Kluge. More...
France: Brain damage found in paediatric long covid cases
For the first time, the cerebral reality of the long form of the Covid-19 is demonstrated in children. More...
France: Hundreds infected by Covid-19 in nursing homes in one week
There have been a large number of reports of Covid-19 infections in French nursing homes over the past week. More...
France: Covid-19 cases increase 125% in one week, Delta at 80% – “We have entered a fourth wave”
“We have entered a fourth wave of the virus,” said government spokesman Gabriel Attal on leaving the Council of Ministers on Monday, July 19, explaining that “the dynamics of the epidemic are extremely strong, with a wave faster and a steeper slope than all the previous ones”. More...









