The info not to be missed
After the weekly press conference, it is time to provide “after-sales service”.
This is the task that the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, tackled this morning on BFMTV, the day after Jean Castex's intervention.
"In 4 to 6 weeks, we will have vaccinated a large part of the most vulnerable groups", he assured while for the time being, 3.2 million French people have received two doses of vaccine and 1.8 million a first injection.
Other reassuring news, the Minister of Health notes "a decrease in hospitalizations and serious cases" and "the South African variant and the Brazilian variant" are, according to him, contained.
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What about the confinement on weekends decided in Pas-de-Calais, while Seine-Saint-Denis, spared, deplores the same incidence rate?
"The hospital charge is not the same" in these two departments, justifies Olivier Véran.
Not to mention that "to confine Seine-Saint-Denis on weekends, that would mean setting up containment throughout Ile-de-France.
The choice that was made was to still be actively vigilant (...), to gain more time ”.
The Minister of Health who also took the pen this Friday to "thank" all caregivers and especially ... call them to receive their injections.
“Only one in three caregivers is vaccinated today.
This is not normal and it compromises our ability to fight effectively and efficiently against the virus, ”Jean Castex thundered yesterday.
What to also remember
A drama avoided in Marseille
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A man armed with a knife was arrested near the Yavné Jewish school, in the 13th arrondissement of Marseille.
The individual, aged about sixty, was turned back by security agents, who then overpowered him in a kosher grocery store located nearby, pending the intervention of the municipal police and then the Bac.
No injuries are to be deplored and the prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône has ordered to "immediately strengthen security" around the sites of the Jewish community of Marseille.
Pharmacists, nurses, midwives ...
They are officially authorized to vaccinate the population after the publication of a decree this morning.
In pharmacies, vaccinations will begin on Monday March 15, announced Jean Castex yesterday at his press conference.
Those who wish can make an appointment on the Ordoclic platform, open from Monday.
Initially, vaccination in pharmacies will mainly be reserved for 50-74 year olds with co-morbidities, who will mainly receive AstraZeneca serum.
12 police custody after clashes in Lyon.
The district of La Duchère caught fire last night.
The starting point of this urban violence?
A scooter accident in which a teenager was seriously injured.
The 13-year-old is still between life and death.
According to testimonies from residents, the scooter was chased by an unmarked police car, which the prefecture formally denies.
Tensions then arose, police and firefighters were stoned, vehicles and street furniture set on fire.
12 people were taken into police custody, including eight minors, following the violence.
"The amalgamation was probably made with the presence of a police crew, but it is a rumor", estimated the mayor of Lyon Grégory Doucet, calling for "appeasement".
An investigation was entrusted to the IGPN.
The Restos campaign is launched.
Today, the Restos du cœur are launching their major national fundraising campaign.
A campaign which takes on a new dimension this year with the economic and health crisis, which should result in a "significant increase" in beneficiaries, according to the president of the association, Patrice Douret.
“The queue is getting longer and longer,” abounds Alexandre, 31, whom we met in Paris.
Like him, the beneficiaries of the association are increasingly young.
Last year, the Restaurants had harvested 7,400 tonnes of food - or 7 million meals - a target they hope to exceed this year.
As for the traditional Enfoirés concert, it will be broadcast this evening on TF1.
The unexpected info
The tension is at its height with the approach of the fight which will oppose this evening, in Nantes, Tony Yoka to the Belgian Joël Tambwe Djeko.
Yesterday, the latter slapped the Olympic champion after the weigh-in.
The Frenchman has sworn to settle scores in the ring.
IT'S GOING TO BE SHOW 🔥
See you this Friday evening at 10:15 p.m. live on @canalplus 🥊👊💥
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But what exactly happened? After stepping off the scales, the two boxers, as tradition dictates, faced each other, eye to eye. That's when the Belgian slapped the Frenchman. Furious, Tony Yoka tried to retaliate and the guards had to separate the two heavyweights. “It's very annoying, recognized the Olympic champion yesterday. Now we have to go over it, we must not get out of the fight ... and tell yourself that he will pay all that on Friday. The thing is, I want to box him now, but we'll fix that in the ring. The answer at 10:15 pm, this time in the rules of the noble art.
