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This is the first day of confinement in the 16 departments concerned where the certificate for walking is no longer mandatory after yesterday's quack.
Proof of address is sufficient.
The latest assessment in France is 185 deaths and 35,327 new cases in 24 hours.
In France, more than 6 million people have received a first dose of the vaccine.
177,152 first doses and 13,079 second doses were injected on Saturday.
Worldwide, the death toll from the pandemic is at least 2,709,000.
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8:20 am.
The anger of traders.
Faced with the new list of businesses authorized to open in the 16 confined departments, anger is mounting among some.
"It is up to the one who shouts the loudest to stay open or the Prime Minister throws the dice and depending on the figures and he or she authorizes or not such activity to work?
»Is irritated Jean-Michel Karam, at the head of the IEVA group.
He regrets that hairdressers can open, but not beauty institutes.
" It is bullshit.
»More details in our article.
8:10 am.
New certificate available in digital format.
The new version of the travel certificate is online.
But it does not work for the 6am - 7pm time slot.
At these times, in 16 departments, if it is finally no longer compulsory to walk within a radius of 10 km, it remains necessary in several other situations.
8 hours.
The fight against AIDS threatened.
The Nobel Prize for Medicine Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, president of the Sidaction association, points to an "unfortunately significant" impact of the health crisis linked to Covid-19 on the fight against AIDS, for example due to "a fall" screenings, she said in the JDD.
7:50 a.m.
Call for new restrictions in other regions.
Regions other than the 16 departments subject to new restrictions could soon fall into a "very difficult" situation because of the so-called English variant, warns Arnaud Fontanet, member of the Scientific Council.
In an interview with the Journal du dimanche, he calls for the other regions still spared by the epidemic outbreak to be submitted without delay to the restrictions applied since Saturday in 16 departments.
“Now is the time to act and test the impact of new measures elsewhere to see if they work, before reaching the stage where we have no other choice but to shut everything down.
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7.40 am.
Aramco profit plummets in 2020.
Saudi energy giant Saudi Aramco reports net profit of 41 billion euros in 2020. It is 44.4% lower than in the previous year due to lower prices of crude oil, due to the pandemic that has weighed on global demand.
In recent weeks, prices have started to rise sharply again.
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7:30 am.
First death linked to Covid-19 in Wallis and Futuna.
The archipelago of Wallis and Futuna records its first death linked to Covid-19 after the death, on Saturday, of an octogenarian in this territory where a mass vaccination campaign of the entire population has just been launched.
The victim is an 83-year-old Futunian who was evacuated from March 5 to 10 to Sia hospital, in Wallis, for other pathologies.
She then tested positive for the coronavirus on March 15 and rehospitalized on Saturday for respiratory distress before succumbing.
A doctor told Wallis and Futuna La 1ère television that Covid-19 "was not the only cause" of the death of this octogenarian but "that the disease was necessarily a link".
7:20 a.m.
Arrests and injured in protest against restrictions in London.
At least 36 people were arrested and several police officers injured on Saturday in London (United Kingdom) during a demonstration that brought together several thousand people against the confinement.
Most of those arrested were for breach of containment.
Several police officers, targeted by projectiles, were injured.
More information in our article.
7:10.
Protests against restrictions in Canada.
More than a thousand people took part on Saturday afternoon in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) in a demonstration against the restrictive measures.
In particular, since the beginning of January, Quebec has imposed a nighttime curfew, an unprecedented measure in Canada on a provincial scale since the Spanish flu epidemic a century ago.
7 hours.
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