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Covid-19 in France: "The lifting of the wearing of the mask and the vaccination pass is surely too early"

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Employee of Public Health France showing masks.

AFP - FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI

By: Fanny Bleichner

From this Monday, health restrictions aimed at combating the Covid-19 epidemic in France will ease considerably, despite the number of contaminations which is on the rise again.

For the government, the latest scientific modeling and the drop in pressure on hospitals make it possible to lift most of the measures, some of which date back to the start of the pandemic.

Does this easing of restrictions in France come too soon?

For epidemiologist Yves Buisson, president of the Covid-19 cell of the National Academy of Medicine " 

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