Coronavirus: France scrambles to avoid fresh lockdown; UK health minister warns over new variants’ vaccine resistance

New border controls went into force in France on Sunday as part of a massive effort to contain the spread of Covid-19 and avoid another nationwide lockdown.After a slow start to vaccinations, French health authorities reported that a million people had received coronavirus inoculations by Saturday.But stubbornly high new rates for infections, hospitalisations and deaths from Covid-19 fuelled fears France may need another full lockdown, which would be the third, inflicting yet more devastation…

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