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Face masks in France are no longer mandatory in outdoor settings, and as of Sunday the night-time curfew will end, 10 days earlier than expected.
The acceleration in France’s easing of lockdown is down to “the health situation improving faster than we had hoped,” according to its Prime Minister Jean Castex.
The country also added the US and Canada to its green list on Thursday, and reopened Disneyland Paris after nearly eight months of closure.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has also confirmed it will be ditching face masks outside ‘soon’, while in Germany the work-from-home order will lift on June 30, and Austria is reopening nightclubs on July 1.
The UK, on the other hand, faces another four weeks of restrictions after the Government postponed “Freedom Day” to July 19 – with travel curbs likely to last for the foreseeable future.
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In photos: Disneyland Paris reopens, with plenty of rules
Disneyland Paris reopened yesterday after eight months of closure. Here’s what it looked like it on its first day…
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Deal: Wizz Air launches 24-hour flash sale
Budget carrier Wizz Air has announced a 15% off promotion on selected routes on flights booked today and departing on or before October 31, 2021.
Customers must book using the app by 11pm tonight, and WIZZ Flex passengers can cancel their flight up to three hours before departure and receive 100% of the fare immediately reimbursed in airline credit.
The Tudor castle which hosted Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn is now a luxury hotel
Thornbury Castle in Gloucestershire has unveiled the first phase of a major refurb that will see its status as the country’s only Tudor castle-turned-hotel. Jane Knight reports:
Henry VIII certainly liked a dollop or two of grandeur. So it’s not surprising that he bagged the best bedroom when he and Anne Boleyn pitched up in the courtyard of Gloucestershire’s Thornbury Castle with a retinue of hundreds on their royal progress in 1535.
You too can stay in his magnificent bedchamber, in the castle’s octagonal tower, with its ornate ceiling, four-poster bed, stone fireplace, and loo in the old garderobe (these days happily plumbed).
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Sydney told to mask up again in bid to contain cluster
Australia’s New South Wales has made the wearing of masks mandatory on public transport in Sydney, as a cluster of the highly-infectious Delta variant expanded to a fourth person.
Authorities said all planned outdoor events with good Covid-19 safety plans can proceed in the country’s largest city.
The latest cluster, the first in the state in more than a month, was traced back to a driver who occasionally used to transport overseas airline crew.
Health officials said the latest case likely picked up the virus through minimal contact with an infected person in a Sydney shopping centre.
Wales follows England by delaying easing lockdown restrictions
Wales is delaying further easing of coronavirus restrictions for four weeks after seeing a spike in cases of the Delta variant of the disease first identified in India.
First Minister for Wales Mark Drakeford will make the announcement on Friday and is expected to encourage people to go for their second doses of the vaccine.
The nation is aiming to roll out more than half a million doses over the next four weeks.
The change comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Monday that the final stage of England’s lockdown road map – which would have seen all restrictions lift and international travel resume on June 21 – would be delayed until July 19 due to a spike in cases.
Latest figures show there are nearly 490 cases of the Delta variant in Wales, while more than four out five new Covid-19 cases are the Delta variant, according to the Welsh Government.
Two-thirds of these are not linked to travel or contact with another case, it added.