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France extends weekend lockdown

By AFP
March 07, 2021

PARIS: Hundreds of thousands of people in northern France went back into lockdown on Saturday, while health officials stepped up their nationwide vaccination campaign to make up ground after a slow start.

The residents of Pas-de-Calais on the north coast joined those in the region’s port of Dunkirk -- and the Mediterranean resort of Nice -- already shut down on Saturdays and Sundays.