Police have allowed two street marches by anti-vaccine and yellow vest demonstrators to go ahead in Paris on Saturday afternoon. France’s secondary schools reopened on Monday after a four-week break to stem the tide of Covid-19 infections. The yellow vests movement which began as a protest against fuel taxes grew into a broader revolt that saw some of the worst street violence in decades and tested Macron’s authority. The French action has no single leader or goal, and comes as months of protests against French government vaccination rules in Paris and other cities have been waning. Waving French flags and shouting “freedom”, the protesters organised online, galvanised in part by truckers who have blockaded Canada’s capital and border crossings. Some convoys sought to avoid police detection on Friday by travelling on local roads instead of the major highways leading into the capital. Railing against the vaccination pass that France requires to enter restaurants and many other venues, protesters have tried to weave towards Paris from north, south, east and west, waving and honking at onlookers from their car windows. Police have created checkpoints, deployed armoured personnel carriers and set up water cannon to brace the city for the protests. Separately police also said they had arrested five protesters in southern Paris in possession of sling shots, hammers, knives and gas masks.Ībout 7,000 officers have been mobilised for the weekend protests. Less than two months from a presidential election, President Emmanuel Macron’s government is eager to keep protests from spiralling into large-scale demonstrations like the anti-government gilets jaunes (yellow vests) protests of 2018. “At least two people were arrested.”Įarlier French police said they had stopped 500 vehicles that were trying to get into Paris and nearly 300 tickets were handed out to their occupants by mid-morning. “Horseback police dispersed a group of people and dealt blows.,” it reported. Police warned protesters they would be fined and arrested if they did not leave by mid-afternoonĭutch press agency ANP said most left the area calmly, but minor skirmishes broke out after the trucks drove away. The prime minister said there was no need, yet, for a new national lockdown French Prime Minister Jean Castex has announced a new evening curfew will begin nationally across France starting at 18. Several hundred vehicles during the day blocked access to the Binnehof, seat of the Dutch government, according to a report by public television. Police told protesters to move on as some climbed on their cars in the middle of the roundabout at the top of the Champs Élysées.Ī convoy of vehicles from across the Netherlands also brought The Hague’s city centre to a standstill earlier in the day. FRENCH newspapers have turned on Emmanuel Macron, branding his Government's decision to put millions of people in Paris and parts of northern France into a fresh lockdown an 'admission of failure'. Inspired by horn-blaring demonstrations in Canada, the motorists waved French flags and honked in defiance of a police order not to enter the city. Protesters took to the streets of France for the fifth consecutive Saturday to oppose the country’s pass sanitaire health pass now required. 'If you're going to be in a crowded public place - the subway, an airplane, a crowded theater - those are the kind of places I would at least consider wearing a mask.Cars carrying protesters managed to get through police checkpoints in central Paris on Saturday to snarl traffic around the Arc de Triomphe.

'Who wants to get sick while on vacation?' she says. On 'CBS Mornings' Friday, Gounder added she'll be masking up for an upcoming flight - and says others may want to do the same. Mask mandates are challenging because they make people really bent out of shape out of proportion to the ask.' 'If I were with people who aren't public health-trained, I would wear a mask, particularly in crowded situations, because I really don't have time for COVID. Danielle Ompad, an epidemiologist at the NYU School of Global Public Health, said 'It's a bit like putting the genie back in the bottle.' Still, she has personally started wearing a mask again recently in crowded places, where the risk of exposure is greater. Still, some experts fear it could be hard to convince Americans to don masks again even if COVID cases continue to rise. 'If I really cannot afford to get sick, or I am going to be seeing somebody who is at increased risk for a bad outcome if infected, I will take extra precautions,' he said. When determining when to be especially careful, LaPook said he thinks about what he'll be doing the next two weeks.

After news broke about the BA.2.86 variant earlier this month, the CDC said the agency's advice on protecting yourself from COVID-19 - which includes wearing a high-quality mask among other recommendations listed on its website - 'remains the same.'

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