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COVID-19 patients transferred away to ease pressure on Paris hospitals

It's part of moves to free up capacity in Paris with the peak of the COVID-19 epidemic expected in the coming week.

France

'I self-isolate in a car park': Homeless struggle amid French lockdown

Euronews has been out with France's Red Cross as it helps the vulnerable cope during the coronavirus lockdown.

World News

Keep what you sow: Fruit growers struggling amid coronavirus lockdown

From restaurant closures to staffing problems, coronavirus has been a big headache for fruit and vegetable growers.

Smart Regions

Meet the researchers using sea turtles to learn more about cyclones

In partnership with the European Commission

Scientists on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean have enlisted sea turtles to help with vital research into tropical cyclones

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France

French politician dies of COVID-19

Tributes have been paid on social media to the former French government minister, Patrick Devedjian, who has died of Covid-19 at the age of 75.

World News

Covid-10: Europe battles with the coronavirus

As Italy builds a field hospital, Spain further clamps down on non-essential activities and France carries out its largest medical evacuation of the coronavirus patients on French territory, Britain's bask in the warm weather.

France

Dozens of arrests in France over illegal face masks resale

All face masks have been requisitioned by the French government to deal with the COVID-19 crisis and it is illegal to sell them.

Germany

More French COVID-19 patients flown to Germany and Switzerland

France's Defence Minister, Florence Parly, thanked "Germany for mobilising to take care of French people and for embodying even greater solidarity: Europe watching over Europeans".

France

Domestic violence cases jump 30% during lockdown in France

Those confined at home with abusive partners are at increased risk during the coronavirus pandemic.

My Europe Series

The rise of the far-right in France

Unreported Europe hears that unemployment, corruption and frustration are fueling the rise of the right in the French city of Hénin-Beaumont.

France

'Can my husband see his mistress?': Police's oddest lockdown questions

French police have received a surge of calls since the coronavirus lockdown. And some of them are very odd indeed.

France

Coronavirus in France: healthy 16 year-old dies of COVID-19

Teenager Julie A. became France's youngest patient to die after contracting COVID-19.

Iraq

French charity workers kidnapped in Iraq are released

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that four aid workers — three French nationals and an Iraqi — who went missing on January 20 have been freed. No word on where or who held them.

Business Planet

How are European businesses adapting to the coronavirus pandemic?

In partnership with The European Commission

The Euronews Business Planet team looks at how companies are adapting production and strategies to get through the coronavirus outbreak

United Kingdom

Euroviews. Boris Johnson’s coronavirus lockdown restrictions don’t go far enough to contain its spread ǀ View

The prime minister will now need to elaborate further on what practical steps his government plans to implement to tackle this pandemic. I fear that his current restrictions are lacking any concrete steps for how he hopes to achieve them.

France

Inmates in France hit out over prison hygiene amid COVID-19 fears

They claim little has been done to protect inmates or prison staff from catching coronavirus.

World News

France will send COVID-19 patients from east to west via special train

Each carriage will have four patients and a team of six health workers.

France

French mayor removes public benches amid claims of lockdown rebellion

The mayor said the 40 benches were being removed because people were disobeying confinement rules.

France

French cartoonist behind Astérix, Albert Uderzo, dies aged 92

Albert Uderzo, the cartoonist behind the famous French Astérix comic books, has died at the age of 92.

France

Saxophonist Manu Dibango dies in France of COVID-19

The celebrated saxophonist died in a hospital in Paris.