France to ease lockdown to avoid economic ‘collapse’

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Businesses and some schools to reopen on May 11 but restaurants and cafés will stay closed.

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France’s prime minister Edouard Philippe on Tuesday outlined plans to gradually relax the country’s coronavirus lockdown, in force since March 17, in order to avert the risk of economic “collapse”, reports the Financial Times. 

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