Last weekend, nearly 215,000 people took part in anti-health pass marches the length and breadth of the country, according to official figures – down from the 237,000 who had joined protests the previous week.

It was the first drop in participation numbers since the first protests were staged in mid-July.

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Four marches are planned in Paris, including two organised by members of the ‘yellow vests’ movement, and one headed by hard-right politician Florian Philippot – who was Marine Le Pen’s number two before leaving her side to form his own political party, Les Patriotes.

The first of the yellow vest protests starts at 11:30am at Place de Fontenoy. The procession, which will leave at 1pm, will head to Bercy.

The second yellow vest-led protest meets at Place de la Bourse from 1.30pm, and will set off in the direction of Place Emond Rostand at 3pm.

Philippot’s protest is at Place Denfert-Rochereau from 2.30pm.

The fourth protest, organised by Paris pour la liberté – a collective formed in March 2020 in protest at the government’s management of the Covid crisis – will meet at Place du Châtelet from 1pm before setting off towards Place Edmond Rostand at 2.30pm.

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Protests elsewhere include those at: 

• Agen – 2pm Place Gravier

• Aix-en-Provence – 10am Place Général de Gaulle

• Bayonne – 2pm Mairie

• Bordeaux – 11am Place de la Victoire

• Briançon – 2pm Champ de Mars

• Caen – 2pm Théâtre Caen

• Calais – 2pm Théâtre

• Clermont-Ferrand – 2pm Place De Jaude

• Dax – 10am Place Mairie

• Dieppe – 10am Gare

• Dunkerque – 2pm Place Jean Bart

• Fréjus – 2pm Base Nature François Léotard

• Grenoble – 2.30pm Place Verdun

• Guingamps – 10am Place Vally

• Hendaye – 3pm Place de la République

• La Rochelle – 1pm Parvis de l’Aquarium

• Le Havre – 2pm Hotel de Ville

• Lille – 12pm Place de la République

• Limoges – 2pm Place Jourdan

• Lyon – 2pm Gare des Brotteaux jusque Place Macé

• Marseille – 2pm Vieux-Port

• Metz – 2pm Place de la République

• Montpellier – 2pm Comédie

• Nancy – 2pm Place Maginot

• Nice – 2pm Garibaldi

• Nîmes – 5pm Préfecture

• Orléans – 2.30pm Place République

• Pau – 10am Place Verdun

• Perpignan – 2pm Place Catalogne

• Quimper – 2pm Croix des Gardiens

• Rennes – 2pm – Place République

• Rouen – 2pm Place de l’Hôtel de Ville

• Saint-Jean-de-Luz – 3pm Place Louis XIV

• Strasbourg – 1pm Place Kléber

• Tarbes – 2pm Place Verdun
  
• Toulouse – 2pm Métro Jean Jaurès

• Vannes – 2pm Esplanade du Port

• Versailles – 12pm Place d’Armes

On August 19th, the Health Ministry reported some 4.7million people in France have had their first dose of Covid-19 vaccine this month alone. By that date, more than 40.5 million French residents were fully vaccinated, while 47.1 million have had at least one shot.

#Vaccination #COVID19 | Au 19 août :
✔ 47 127 195 personnes ont reçu une 1ère injection
✔ 40 508 406 personnes ont un schéma vaccinal complet

— Ministère des Solidarités et de la Santé (@Sante_Gouv) August 19, 2021