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French so-called "non-essential" shops should soon find out whether they can reopen or not: a Defence council starts at the Elysee Palace, where President Macron and his ministers are expected to take several decisions, two weeks after the start of a second lockdown and before a new PM presser later in the day. IMAGES
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne holds a meeting on Covid-19 via videoconference with the prefects and directors of regional health agencies, as Europe currently experiences a seventh wave of the epidemic. IMAGES
The peak of the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in France "appears to be behind us", Prime Minister Jean Castex says, announcing that travel restrictions will be relaxed from early next month. Castex tells reporters there has been a "drop in the circulation of the virus" over the last 10 days, confirming that restrictions confining people to a 10-kilometre (six-mile, ed) radius of their homes would be dropped from May 3. SOUNDBITE
The Promenade des Anglais in Nice is almost deserted during this first weekend of confinement as the region battles an increasingly worrying number of Covid-19 cases. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Jean Castex talks by video-conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, their first exchange since Castex took office. They discuss the measures taken in France, Germany and Europe to deal with Covid-19, as well as the recent terrorist attacks on the continent. IMAGES
On the first day of France's return to lockdown, traffic is less dense but steady on the Champs-Elysées in Paris. The measures meant to counter a spike in cases are less strict than France's previous lockdown and provide for the continuation of some professional activites, school, postal and other services. IMAGES
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