🇫🇷 The French government has asked people to stop using homemade fabric face #masks as the artisanal coverings are considered to provide insufficient filtration against the new, more contagious #coronavirus variants 😷🦠
@JJammine With more than 26,000 confirmed cases of #covid19 in the past 24h in #France 🇫🇷, experts are considering options to stop the spread of the virus 🦠
Could one option be to reconfine just the elderly and vulnerable? @Ellen_TLG reports ⤵️
🇫🇷✈️French President Emmanuel #Macron said that all arrivals by plane must provide a negative #Covid19 test before entering the territory, including from other #EU countries 🇪🇺
🇫🇷 The French government will be able to #vaccinate 70 million people by the end of August "if all of the vaccines ordered are approved by European and global health authorities", French Health Minister Olivier #Véran said Thursday 💉🦠
#EU 🇪🇺 leaders on Thursday "strongly discouraged" Europeans from non-essential travel and warned tougher restrictions on trips could come within days if efforts to curb the #coronavirus fell short 🦠
@MarpleFlo@FrazJ#Japan 🇯🇵 and the #IOC is standing firm on their commitment to host the #Tokyo#Olympics this year but the pledge looks unlikely to ease public concern about holding the event during a #pandemic 🦠
As @WassimCornet reports, travellers to the #US will be required to quarantine on arrival while #masks will be mandated on many domestic trains, planes and buses ⤵️
@WassimCornet 🇺🇸 The measures are part of #Biden's national strategy that is outlined in a 200-page document that foresees scaling up #vaccinations, testing, returning students to school and rebuilding trust with the public among other goals 💉😷
Vice-president under Barack #Obama and a senator for 36 years, #JoeBiden is a political figure familiar to most Americans🇺🇸
To many, he lacks the aura of the last Democratic president, but after a period of turmoil in US politics, is he the steady pair of hands the nation needs?
#US 🇺🇸 President Joe #Biden moved swiftly to dismantle Donald #Trump’s legacy on his first day in office.
The president signed a series of executive actions to reverse course on immigration, climate change, racial equity and handling of the pandemic ✍️
#Inauguration Day for #JoeBiden will look unlike anything the nation has seen before as the scars of #Covid19 and the Jan. 6 insurrection at the #US 🇺🇸 #Capitol turn the West Front into a virtual ghost town compared to years past.
The evening of November 13, 2015 turned into a night of sheer terror when a group of jihadist commandos launched a series of attacks in #Paris that killed 130 people.
France 24 spoke to four Parisians about how the night of #13Novembre2015 unfolded ⤵️
🇫🇷 Lili Rathipanya, 40, who lives just 50 metres from Le Petit Cambodge, recalled how she started hearing “never-ending” sirens blaring outside her window.
Five years after a squad of Islamist killers waged the deadliest attack during peacetime in modern-day #France 🇫🇷, PM Jean Castex on Friday paid tribute to those killed, with the country once again on its highest security alert.
Almost two weeks into the national #lockdown, #France's 🇫🇷 PM Jean Castex is holding a news conference regarding the #coronavirus situation later Thursday 🦠
As @Ellen_TLG reports, the government is expected to make announcements on whether to tighten or loosen the lockdown ⤵️
@Ellen_TLG 🇫🇷 The medical staff of the French hospital of #Chambery is under pressure, as the region of #Savoie is being hard hit by a second wave of #coronavirus 🦠📈
As @Selina_Sykes reports, the Savoie region has the highest infection rate in #France ⤵️
The announcement came as #Italy 🇮🇹 recorded more than one million cases and the #UK 🇬🇧 said its death toll has surpassed the 50,000 mark 📈🦠 f24.my/74KC.t