Macron Outlines French Re-Opening Plan Despite Hospital Pressure

From bnnbloomberg.ca

President Emmanuel Macron said restrictions on businesses and a nationwide curfew will be relaxed from May 19 as he outlines steps to reopen France amid an accelerating vaccination campaign. With his job on the line in elections in just a year, Macron is under pressure to ease curbs. Yet while that will bring some relief to a pandemic-weary country, it’s also a gamble. Hospitals remain under intense strain and France is still trailing the U.K. and Germany in the number of vaccine doses administered. Here’s how Macron plans to progressively phase out Covid curbs, according to an interview with Le Parisien ... (full story)