Paris, Nov 24 (AFP/APP):France on Tuesday was set to become the latest country to ease coronavirus restrictions in the run-up to Christmas, as Russia joined in a flurry of encouraging announcements about possible vaccines. In an evening television address, French President Emmanuel Macron was also expected to announce a strategy for procuring vaccines as world governments scramble to put together a complex and lengthy vaccination programme. “We will see a slight relaxing of the lockdown,” Prime Minister Jean Castex told leaders of Macron’s LREM party hours before the president’s primetime appearance, participants told AFP. Hopes over Covid-19 vaccines have given … Continue reading France to ease lockdown as world ramps up vaccine preparations