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AstraZeneca vaccine in turmoil.
First criticized for its supposed lack of efficacy in those over 65, the Swedish-British serum is now suspected of causing side effects.
So much so that on Monday, in the wake of Germany, France, Italy and Spain, to which Sweden has been added since Tuesday morning, have decided to suspend their vaccination campaign.
A real halt in the European strategy to fight against Covid-19, while for the European Medicines Agency (EMA), which will hold an “extraordinary meeting” on the subject on Thursday, the advantages of the vaccine prevail always on the risks.
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Until the latter's new opinion, it is now a question of reassuring the 1.3 million French people who have already been vaccinated with AstraZeneca, and of trying to preserve the precarious confidence in this controversial serum, in the event of a fire. green from the EMA in 48 hours.
Patients who received a first dose "are not in danger", also hammered this Tuesday morning the Minister of Health Olivier Véran.
In the same reassuring tone, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, the Minister in charge of Industry, also clarified: “There are very few cases of thrombosis which occurred when people were vaccinated.
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Thomas Pesquet at the helm.
Back on board the International Space Station (ISS) from April 22, Thomas Pesquet will be its commander, during the six months of his second mission on board.
The news, a first for a French astronaut, has just been made official by the Director General of the European Space Agency, Josef Aschbacher.
During his first mission, from November 2016 to June 2017, Thomas Pesquet amazed us with his experiences in weightlessness and his breathtaking views of the Earth.
Roselyne Bachelot did not like the Césars.
Asked this Tuesday morning on RTL, the Minister of Culture castigated the last Césars ceremony, marked by several declarations and gestures from the participants to shout the despair of the world of culture.
Moreover placed in the viewfinder of the actors throughout the evening of Friday, Roselyne Bachelot considered that this ceremony "was not useful to the French cinema".
"What struck me is that ultimately, the political rally side of this affair has damaged the image of French cinema, while it is massively helped", declared the minister, advancing the figure of 1 , 2 billion euros of aid to the cinema in 2020. Roselyne Bachelot also considered "heartbreaking to see artists trampling their work tool".
A Breton variant under surveillance.
The Directorate General of Health (DGS) announced on Monday evening that it had detected a new variant at Lannion hospital (Côtes-d'Armor).
It would not be more transmissible, nor at the origin of more severe forms, according to the Regional Health Agency, but it has the big drawback of being undetectable by PCR tests.
The DGS announces that "in-depth investigations are underway, in order to better understand this variant and its impact".
For the moment, this Breton variant has therefore been classified in the category of variants under surveillance by the World Health Organization (WHO).
They are watched by the international community but not considered worrying, unlike those of "English, Brazilian or South African" origin.
Keylor Navas accused.
A former president of the Costa Rican football federation assures us that the goalkeeper of PSG and captain of the national team, Keylor Navas, had proposed to lose three matches to achieve the dismissal of the Colombian coach of Costa Rica.
Facts that date back to 2014, when Jorge Luis Pinto was at the helm of the Costa Rican selection.
"I remember that it was Keylor Navas who told me: we lose 3 games, there is a clause which provides for this and that", declared Eduardo Li. He was speaking during the hearing of a libel lawsuit that the Paris goalkeeper and two selection teammates have brought against two Costa Rican executives for claiming that all three conspired to get Pinto out.
According to the local press, Navas said he was "very surprised" by these accusations.
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Racist Annie Cordy's “Hot Cocoa”?
In any case, this is the controversy that has agitated Belgium for a few days.
At the origin of this case, the tribute wanted by the Brussels metropolis, after a popular consultation, aimed at renaming the longest tunnel in the country by giving it the name of the Belgian singer who died last September.
Problem, activists denounce the words they consider to be racist in the hit of the latter "Chaud Cacao".
The "spirit of the song", released in 1985, indeed irritates Mireille-Tsheusi Robert, president of BAMKO, a feminist institute of reflection and action on anti-black racism, which denounced this choice on the Belgian channel. RTL-TVI.
Among the defenders of Annie Cordy's text, we are completely overwhelmed.
"I know the song by heart and I'm still looking for what there may be racist in it," responded Annie Cordy's niece, Michèle Lebon.
"In
Chaud Cacao
, is the racism aimed at
whistling dragons
,
drum crabs
or
werewolves
?
", Ironically for its part the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (Licra), accusing" crazy "the slayers of" Hot Cocoa ".
