PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday the country's 320,000 homecare workers would each be granted a COVID-19 bonus of 500 euros, a package worth 160 million euros (144.3 million pounds).
"These men and women were the forgotten ones of the COVID bonus", Macron said during a press conference in the southern city of Toulon, adding the French state would put up 80 million euros and the local governments the other half of the package.
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