The essential
Kindergartens and schools reopen their doors after two weeks of joint vacation and one week of closure.
The nurseries are also reopening.
With distance learning courses for middle and high schools, digital workspaces (ENTs) are once again under heavy demand after major failures in early April.
The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, goes to a nursery school in Melun (Seine-et-Marne).
The latest assessment of the pandemic in France is 145 dead in 24 hours.
30,287 people are hospitalized;
5,978 are in critical care.
More than 100,000 French have died since the onset of the disease.
More than 14 million French people have received at least one dose of the vaccine and nearly 5,540,000 have received two doses.
> The events of the day
7:55 am.
Emmanuel Macron defends the reopening of nursery and primary schools.
The Head of State is promoting the reopening of courses in physics for the youngest students.
“School helps to fight against social inequalities and destiny.
This is why our children must be able to continue to go there, ”writes in particular Emmanuel Macron on Twitter.
School helps to fight against social inequalities and destiny.
This is why our children must be able to continue to go there and to learn, with a strict protocol.
Welcome back everyone !
And let's continue to apply barrier gestures (remember the song).
- Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) April 26, 2021
7.45 a.m.
Towards a reduction of teleworking.
A meeting is organized on Monday between the unions and the Minister of Labor, Elisabeth Borne, to discuss a reduction in the health protocol in companies.
The aim is to facilitate the return of a greater number of employees to the site of their company in the near future.
More details in this article.
7:30 am.
No room for error.
There is no unanimous support for resuming lessons in physics in nursery and primary.
The government takes a double risk: "that of an epidemic resumption, and that of the lack of clarity or cascading class closures", details Le Parisien in this article.
7:15 am.
The practical guide to recovery.
Course of classes according to age, meal intake and protocol if cases of Covid-19 are detected: the Parisian goes into detail, in this article, on the methods of resuming education.
7 hours. Re-entry in physics and at a distance.
It is the day of recovery in France. In addition to the nurseries which are reopening, kindergartens and primary schools are resuming for all with lessons in physics. Colleges and high schools are starting distance learning again. “Between the Covid and home lessons, many of us have the impression that we haven't made much progress for a year,” laments a high school student. "Some measures have been announced to avoid mixing and prevent contamination, but there are huge holes in the racket," worries a union official about schools. Finally, there is the question of the solidity of distance education services. Le Parisien takes stock in this article.
6:40 am. The capital of Fiji confined.
A fourteen-day lockdown of Fiji's capital Suva has just entered into force. This is to try to curb the appearance of cases of Covid-19 following a burial which resulted in an epidemic focus. The nearly 100,000 inhabitants of this city and its suburbs must stay at home and so-called non-essential businesses are closed after the discovery of the first local cases of Covid-19 in 12 months. A soldier contracted the disease during his quarantine and then allegedly transmitted it to his domestic worker. She attended a funeral in which nearly 500 people took part.
6.30 a.m.
Former Peruvian President Vizcarra positive.
Former Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra, 58, tested positive six months after receiving an early vaccination with Chinese product Sinopharm, which sparked a political scandal.
6:20 am.
Increase in military spending.
Global military spending continued to climb in 2020, despite the pandemic.
They reached nearly $ 2 trillion (around 1,666 billion euros), according to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri).
Last year, they amounted to 1981 billion dollars (about 1,650 billion euros), an increase of 2.6% over one year, while the global gross domestic product fell by 4.4%.
6:10 am.
Vaccinated American tourists will be able to travel to the European Union.
Tourists from the United States will be allowed to visit the European Union in the coming months, provided they are vaccinated, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in an interview with The New York Times.
"Americans, from what I can see, use vaccines approved by the European Medicines Agency
(Editor's note: EMA)
.
This will allow free movement and travel to the European Union, ”she explains.
More generally, she adds that "the 27 member states will accept, unconditionally, all those who are vaccinated with vaccines approved by the EMA".
No timetable is given, but the US newspaper mentions summer as a possibility.
6 hours.
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