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Covid, Sophie Pétronin, therapeutic cannabis: the information to remember this Friday noon

2020-10-09T10:32:57.278Z


Here's what to know about the midday news on October 8.The info not to be missed It is a call to live a little longer with this virus that we have been around for almost 10 months already. This Friday morning, the President of the Scientific Council Jean-François Delfraissy said at the microphone of BFMTV: “We left with a medium and long term vision. We have to learn to live with this virus until next summer ”. That is to say another ten months of co


The info not to be missed

It is a call to live a little longer with this virus that we have been around for almost 10 months already.

This Friday morning, the President of the Scientific Council Jean-François Delfraissy said at the microphone of BFMTV: “We left with a medium and long term vision.

We have to learn to live with this virus until next summer ”.

That is to say another ten months of cohabitation with the barrier gestures, then, the Covid-19 "will subside after a certain time, spontaneously", he assures, also evoking the future marketing of vaccines, as well as probable drugs expected according to him "in the spring".

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"The price to pay to go out and win against this virus is to have restrictive measures at certain times in certain metropolises", also underlined Jean-François Delfraissy, echoing the announcements Thursday evening of the Minister of Health, about of the four new metropolises - Lille, Lyon, Saint-Etienne, Grenoble - placed in high alert zones.

What to also remember

  • It is in all discretion, that the decree long awaited by many patients was published in the Official Journal on Friday: the green light was given to the experimentation of therapeutic cannabis, which will begin "at the latest" on March 31 on 3000 sick.

    But there is still a step, because the decrees setting in particular the forms and conditions of prescription and delivery of the product have not yet been published.

  • Touching images like those of Sophie Pétronin's son, lifting his mother off the ground when she comes out of the plane, on the Malian tarmac.

    The last French hostage, aged 75, was released with three other captives and was reunited with her son on Thursday evening.

    "I'm in great shape", assured the one who is expected in France at midday this Friday and has already claimed that she would return to Gao, Mali, to ensure that the organization of the children's aid agency she was running before being abducted on December 24, 2016, continued to operate.

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Sophie Pétronin's release: the moving reunion with her son in Mali

  • There will be no further postponement.

    The 2020 edition of Paris-Roubaix, scheduled for October 25, was canceled this Friday.

    The race, usually run in April, had been postponed for the first time due to containment.

    This cancellation occurs the day after the announcement of the classification of Lille, neighboring Roubaix, in the maximum alert zone from Saturday.

  • The Nobel Peace Prize goes this year to WFP, the World Food Program.

    The UN food aid organization, which is the largest humanitarian agency fighting against hunger in the world, was rewarded this Friday, against 317 other candidates in the running.

    This is the twelfth Nobel Peace Prize awarded to an offshoot of the international organization.

The unexpected info

In the jumble that this Englishman, inhabitant of Nottingham, accumulated for 20 years, nestled objects whose total value is close to 4 million euros.

Ramann Shukla collected some 60,000 items, which he planned to sell to finance his retirement, but died at the age of 64 of a heart attack, AFP reports.

What was his brother's surprise when the auction house he contacted to sell the items told him that Ramann Shukla's treasure was valued between £ 500,000 and £ 4 million (between £ 551,000 and 4.4 million euros).

Employees notably unearthed rare Batman and Superman comics, Beatles memorabilia, and twelve Rickenbacker guitars that could sell for 11,000 euros each.

Source: leparis

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