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Senior ministers are expected to discuss a possible date for reopening restaurant terraces and cultural centres in France from May

The extra dose will be available for people on dialysis and people who have had organ transplants, among others

Brazil has the second highest deaths from Covid-19 per capita in the world. The variant P1, like the South African variant, is thought to be more resistant to vaccines

As the US investigates blood clot issues, a leading French doctor says she hopes the pause will be ‘temporary’ and that jabs will restart soon. France currently has 200,000 doses on hold

A target of a 50% reduction in fine particle carbon emissions by 2030 has been set. Theses emissions account for up to 8% of deaths in heavily polluted areas

The 2021 list considered 34,837 villages, towns and cities according to 183 criteria including quality of life, safety, shops, services, and transport. Annecy, Bayonne, and Nice all made the top 10

The exhibition has toured the world and is scheduled to open in France this summer – a promising indication that cultural spaces will soon reopen

The mairie is appealing after Facebook's algorithm removed the official page because the town name sounds like the English-language insult

Calls for tighter rules for arrivals from Brazil, France’s first ‘drive-through’ vaccine centre opens and a row breaks out in Moselle over the AstraZeneca jab and South African variant spread

Organised con teams persuade victims to telephone premium-rate number