That puts more than two million people across France under the weekend restrictions, required to stay at home unless they can provide a written exemption. With hospital capacity at 90 percent in Pas-de-Calais, the region’s prefect insisted the new restrictions were necessary to prevent local health services from being overwhelmed. So far however, fewer than 3.4 million people in France have received at least one dose of the vaccine – compared with more than 22 million in Britain. New vaccination centres opened in Pas-de-Calais this weekend, and around a hundred across the Paris region also got up and running. The government has opted for targeted measures in the worst-hit regions rather than another a nationwide lockdown.

Source: The Local March 06, 2021 15:22 UTC