France cancels the 2020 Bastille Day military parade 

France has canceled the annual Bastille Day military parade in Paris on July 14 and replaced with another ceremony which honor the medical workers in the fight against the coronavirus epidemic, the Elysee Palace said in a statement on Thursday.

France has so far reported a total of 188,802 cases of COVID-19 with 29,024 deaths nationwide, according to the latest statistics released by Johns Hopkins University.

(Cover: People at the Place des Vosges in Paris, France, May 31, 2020. /Xinhua)