In France, tens of thousands demonstrated against health passports and stricter corona rules for the fourth weekend in a row.

There were rallies again on Saturday in the capital Paris, but also in numerous other cities.

In Nice on the Mediterranean, between 10,000 and 20,000 people took to the streets, according to a report by the news channel BFMTV.

Last weekend, according to official information, there were a total of more than 200,000 participants in around 150 cities across the country.

Police officials assumed a similar broad participation on Saturday.

On Thursday, the French Constitutional Council approved the controversial compulsory vaccination for health care personnel and the so-called health passport, which provides information about a negative test or a vaccination. Both should help to keep the corona pandemic within limits. The new regulations, which President Emmanuel Macron announced in mid-July, will come into force next week.

France is currently in the fourth wave of corona. Within a week there were last about 225 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants nationwide. The federal government is now classifying larger parts of southern France as a corona high-risk area. From Sunday on, this applies to Provence, the Côte d'Azur and the island of Corsica, among others. French overseas territories such as Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion, St. Martin and St. Barthélemy are also affected.