Prognosis
France Is Seeking to Avoid New Restrictions as Omicron Gains
- Finance Minister rejects any new lockdown, mandatory vaccines
- Defense council will meet on rising Covid-19 cases on Monday
A Covid-19 testing tent outside a pharmacist in Paris.
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France will try to avoid any new health rules including a lockdown in the face of rising coronavirus cases and the spread of the omicron variant, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said.
“We should do the maximum to avoid any new health restrictions,” he said Sunday in an interview with Europe 1, Les Echos and CNews. Unlike some European countries, the government isn’t in favor of making vaccines mandatory, he said.