PARIS—France’s prime minister on April 1 defended new nationwide measures to combat a resurgent coronavirus in France that include closing schools for at least three weeks and putting in place a month-long domestic travel ban, saying the government has acted “consistently and pragmatically.” The National Assembly, France’s lower house, voted to approve the new measures on April 1 by 348–9, after opposition parties boycotted the vote en masse. Jean-Luc Melenchon of the leftist La France Insoumise party denounced the vote as a “bad April fool’s.” Dismissing the measures as half-baked, he urged President Emmanuel Macron to increase vaccine supplies and adopt a more effective vaccine strategy. On April 1, the World Health Organization issued criticism of Europe’s vaccine rollout as being “unacceptably slow.” Prime Minister Jean Castex said “the vaccination campaign is progressing and is being simplified every day. We have no reason to believe that we are advancing along …