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		</div><p>Thousands of people, from families to far-right sympathisers, marched in cities across France for a fifth straight Saturday to denounce a Covid-19 health pass that is now needed to enter restaurants, bars and sports arenas or use long-distance trains, planes or buses.</p>
<p>Some 1,600 police were deployed for three separate marches in Paris, a week after the health pass came into effect.</p>
<p>“Liberty” was the slogan, with protesters saying the health pass limits their freedom and is a disguised way to make Covid-19 vaccinations obligatory.</p>
<p>“We want none of this. It’s nyet,” said a 53-year-old estate agent marching in Paris who identified herself only as Stephanie. “It is a political crisis disguised as a health crisis.”</p>
<p>The pass shows whether people are fully vaccinated, have had a recent negative test or proof of a recent Covid-19 recovery.</p>
<p>The bill authorising it includes mandatory vaccinations for French health workers by September 15.</p>
<p>France is facing soaring numbers of new infections, driven by the more transmissible delta variant.</p>
<p>In Montpellier, some 7,500 people marched. The city is in the Herault region where the infection rate is above 600 per 100,000 people, among the highest in the country.</p>
<p>Despite the protests, polls have shown that the majority of French people support the health pass.</p>
<p>As of late Friday, 46.1 million people in France, nearly 68.5% of the population, had received at least one vaccine shot and more than 38.8 million, or 57.5%, had two shots.</p>
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