Lifting restrictions, record daily numbers, protests and the Omicron wave peaking we get a COVID roundup from Lara Marlowe Irish Times correspondent in France, Thomas Sparrow German Correspondent and Stine Jacobsen, Reuters Reuters Correspondent based in Copenhagen.

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