What to remember from Wednesday
After six months of life in slow motion, the French can again since Wednesday eat or have a drink on the terrace, in compliance with a gauge of 50% of reception capacities and six people per table.
For the reopening of the terraces, the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister met on Wednesday morning on the terrace near the Elysee Palace.
French cinemas, theaters and museums can once again also welcome the public – masked – with maximum attendance figures.
For the new stage of deconfinement, the curfew is postponed to 9 p.m., with a new derogatory travel certificate.
The government “strongly hopes” that the French are no longer obliged to wear the mask outside this “summer”, underlined Gabriel Attal.
The Secretary of State for Tourism, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, announced the implementation of the health pass on June 26 for the whole of Europe.
A hearing took place Wednesday at the Council of State to examine the summary motion asking that the discotheques reopen on June 30. The decision is expected in a few days.
The return to normal life went even further in Austria, where restaurants, hotels and places of culture reopened fully on Wednesday.
After being at the epicenter of the pandemic in the spring of 2020 and observed extreme caution in the face of the coronavirus for months, New York on Wednesday marked the lifting of many restrictions, especially in restaurants.
In the United Kingdom, the government has launched clinical trials, billed as the first in the world, on the immune response generated by a third dose of the anti-Covid vaccine for a recall campaign.
India, which has 1.3 billion inhabitants, on Wednesday counted a new record of 4,529 deaths, and 267,334 contaminations in 24 hours, bringing the total toll to 25.5 million cases and 283,248 deaths.
The coronavirus has killed at least 3.4 million people since the end of December 2019, according to a report drawn up on Wednesday.
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