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2:01 p.m. : Booster doses for anti-Covid vaccines should be “available” for adults, giving priority to those over 40 and vulnerable people, estimates on Twitter (in English) the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
13:31 : The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, will hold a press conference at midday tomorrow to announce the measures adopted after these two consultations.
1:30 p.m. : These avenues will be presented to parliamentarians this afternoon and to local elected representatives tomorrow to decide on concrete measures.
13:38 : To do this, Gabriel Attal announces three avenues being studied by the government:
• The “reinforcement of barrier measures and the wearing of masks, indoors and outdoors “
• the “strengthening of the health pass to put more strain on the unvaccinated than on the vaccinated”
“The acceleration of the vaccination campaign”
13:26 : Gabriel Attal believes that it is necessary at all costs “protect the end of year celebrations “, and “do not have to come back to measures of gauges, let alone closures, curfews or confinement”.
13:23 : “Beyond [la] wave of contaminations, it is the situation in the hospital which is and which remains the sinews of war. “
“The flow of hospitalizations has increased by 40% over the last week” but it is still “contents” estimates Gabriel Attal. The spokesperson believes that the health pass and vaccination have prevented the situation in the hospital from being that of the first waves.
13:21 : The government spokesperson, Gabriel Attal, speaks at the exit of the Health Defense Council.
1:00 p.m. : “We must not take the Covid as a joke. (…) I want people to protect themselves, to respect barrier gestures and above all to be vaccinated.”
Ouafa Py lost her stepfather, Robert, her stepmother, Odile, and her stepbrother, Dominique in a few days in November due to Covid-19. All three resided in Courcelles-sous-Châtenois (Vosges) and were not vaccinated. Ouafa calls for vaccination in Vosges Morning.
12h52 : Here are the articles not to be missed on our site at midday:
• Our insight into the “dazzling” resumption of the Covid-19 epidemic in France
• Our report in Spain meeting the “protective agents” of victims of domestic violence
11:58 am : It is noon, here is a new point on the news of this Wednesday morning:
Nicolas Hulot has announced that he is leaving “definitely public life”, on the eve of the broadcast of an issue of “Special Envoy” in which several women accuse him of rape and sexual assault. Solicited by the show, the former minister did not wish to answer questions from journalists from France 2.
• The president of the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur region, Renaud Muselier, leaves the Republicans party. He believes that there is, in his political family, “a real problem concerning our position vis-à-vis the far right”.
• Karim Benzema was sentenced to a one-year suspended prison sentence for his involvement in the sextape blackmail case against footballer Mathieu Valbuena. His lawyer has announced that he is appealing the decision.
• A Health Defense Council is due to meet this morning, while France is facing a fifth epidemic wave. Follow our live.
10:03 : “There is no intermediate solution offered to parents, since children are sent home, cases of closed classes explode and students have no support at home. Parents are therefore forced to take care. days off to keep them. Or to telecommute, which is absolutely not manageable, when they can do it. “
10:02 : More than 6,000 classes are now closed due to the Covid-19 epidemic. “We are worried about the fact that the pupils do not have lessons. (…) When the classes are closed occasionally, the pedagogical continuity does not really exist”, reacts the co-president of the FCPE, the main federation of parents of students.
09:38 : The fifth wave of Covid-19 “does not threaten the recovery” of French growth, assures Bruno Le Maire. “It is there, it is solid and we have learned from wave to wave to better manage health constraints”, estimates the Minister of the Economy.
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09:16 : It is already 9 o’clock, coffee time and update:
• The president of the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur region, Renaud Muselier, announces that he is leaving the Republicans party. He believes that there is, in his political family, “a real problem concerning our position vis-à-vis the far right”.
• A Health Defense Council is due to meet this morning, while France is facing a fifth epidemic wave. Follow our live.
• NASA launched Dart, its first mission to try to deviate the trajectory of an asteroid. It took off from Vandenberg Base this morning and is expected to hit its target in just under a year.
• The inter-union announced last night the lifting of the roadblocks on Martinique’s roads, so that the situation “does not degenerate”, report our colleagues from La 1ère. Clashes nevertheless took place during the night.
08:22 : The fifth wave is here. Started in October and associated with the Delta variant, it has accelerated markedly in recent days in France with a new surge in the number of contaminations and hospitalizations. We explain why the epidemic is resuming so “dazzling” in France.