International travel and access to many venues in France this summer will be be dependent on the country's 'health passport' showing that people are either fully vaccinated or recently tested - but what if you don't have the correct certificates?
The lack of an EU licence for Covishield - the AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in India - is leading to travellers from the UK, India and African to be technically classed as "unvaccinated" under French travel rules.
France's health minister Olivier Véran has warned that the country could be facing a fourth wave of Covid cases by the end of July, driven by the delta variant which is causing a big spike in cases in the UK.
With travel from the USA and Canada to France opening up at long last, fully vaccinated Americans have been asking if they can access the French and European health passports. Here is the situation.
The French health minister has said he is willing to consider the idea of charging non-vaccinated people for 'convenience' Covid tests - for example tests needed to travel or to enter venues like nightclubs.
Many under 35s in Spain's Basque Country have discovered they're able to travel to Biarritz in France to get their Covid-19 vaccine sooner than in Spain, even though they’re not residents in the neighbouring country.
The other day I joined the more than 14 million French people who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, writes John Lichfield. Whilst in the nurse’s waiting room, I overheard - all right I eavesdropped on - a conversation between several already-jabbed or soon-to-be-jabbed Normans.
Europe has said it will welcome fully vaccinated Americans with open arms this summer, but exactly how you prove you are vaccinated is a slightly more complicated question.
France's health minister has formalised the vaccine policy for people who have had and recovered from Covid, and announced that vaccine centres will be equipped with antibody tests to test everybody before they are vaccinated.
Half the adult population in France will have had at least one dose of vaccine against Covid-19 by the end of Wednesday, but 'warning signs' in the south west of France mean it would be unwise to speed up the process of reopening, the government says.
The Covid-19 vaccine programme is now open to all adults living in France, with the goal of offering a vaccine to everyone who wants one by the end of the summer - but what about under 18s?
The Pfizer vaccine is slightly less effective but appears to still protect against the more transmissible Indian strain of the virus that causes Covid-19, according to a study by France's Pasteur Institute.
Those lucky enough to have received both doses of their vaccine are beginning to think of international travel again, but some restrictions remain in place even for the double-jabbed.
French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi and Britain's GSK announced on Thursday the start of final tests of their belated Covid vaccine as they race to add their jab to the world's arsenal against the pandemic.
Several French social media influencers say have been approached by a mysterious company, appearing to be based in London, offering them money to post videos discrediting the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine.
Extra testing and vaccination centres have been set up in south west France after the discovery of a 'worrying' variant of the Covid virus. Here's what we know about it.
Previously the most sceptical nation in Europe over the Covid vaccine, latest polls show the French are now much more likely to get the shot, with a big fall in the number of people saying they do not intend to be vaccinated.
As France eases out of lockdown, and cross-border travel resumes with certain health requirements, how do those who have recovered from Covid-19 prove it to be able to travel?
