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The French government has to give a pay rise of $9 billion to its health workers. It the deal on Monday with labour unions. The extra cash that nurses and care workers will an extra $208 a month in their pay packet. Doctors who work in the public sector will also get more money. France's Prime Minister said the pay rise was to the efforts of health workers during the coronavirus pandemic. During the outbreak, millions of French people and clapped their nurses and doctors. This the government to them with a rise in pay. The Prime Minister reporters that: "No one can that this is a historic moment for our health system."

Monday's announcement and signing ceremony on the day before Bastille Day on July the 14th. This is a day to honour a turning point in the French Revolution in 1789. It is the national day of France. Around 1,400 nurses, doctors and carers a ceremony in Paris' Place de la Concorde. However, some unions health workers to away from the celebration as a protest. The unions said the government to do more to staff and them safer during the pandemic. The Prime Minister said the government would more. He said: "It is a way of up for years of delay, for which each and every one of us their share of responsibility."