The essential
The French are preparing to find Wednesday - in reduced gauges - terraces, cinemas, theaters, museums… The epidemic is slowing down and the vaccination campaign has reached 20 million first injections.
On Monday, Public Health France announced 196 deaths from Covid-19 in the country in the space of 24 hours, against 293 last Monday.
"We will arrive soon" at the end of the mask outdoors, Health Minister Olivier Véran said on Monday.
The Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot also announces in our columns that participating in the music festival will not require a health pass.
The pandemic has killed at least 3,381,042 people around the world since the end of December 2019.
After the United States (586,330 deaths), the countries most affected are Brazil (436,537), India (274,390), Mexico (220,433), and the United Kingdom (127,679).
Today's events
9:43 am.
The Creuse falls the mask outside.
The Prefect of Creuse Viriginie Darpheuille has decided to no longer make the mask compulsory when walking alone or with family in the street, starting on Thursday, she announces to our colleagues from France Bleu Creuse.
However, this remains in force in shops or markets.
9:26 a.m.
Where to laugh in Paris this Wednesday?
The comedy shows will mostly resume from June 9, but a few stand-up rooms reopen this week.
Overview.
9:14.
True or false ?
Vaccination "does not protect against transmission" of the virus, repeats again the president of Debout France, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, this Tuesday morning on France Info.
Really ?
Many scientific works contradict this claim: we explain everything in this article.
9 hours.
“Reopening” does not rhyme with “miracle”.
They may find their customers tomorrow, but restaurant owners could still face many closures in the coming months.
For the unions that represent them, the worst is yet to come.
08:48.
“We can't wait for the noise to start again.
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Report in Lomme (North), where the largest cinema in France is primed for its reopening.
08:37.
No rule change for teleworkers.
If the employees of shops, cultural places or restaurants will return to their workplace on Wednesday, this will not be the case for teleworking employees who will in principle have to wait until June 9, even if in fact some will not wait.
This method of organization massively deployed in the face of Covid-19 will until then remain the rule for all the activities that allow it, in accordance with the health protocol in companies.
Read alsoChange region: testimony of those who have left Paris, encouraged by the telework option
08:24.
Right to sleep or to party?
In Paris, the return of ephemeral terraces rekindles the debate.
A breath of fresh air for some, “nightmare” for others, the return of ephemeral terraces to Paris on Wednesday brings back to the surface a debate which has considerably hardened in recent years in the capital.
Tomorrow, as in London in mid-April where pubs had been taken by storm, the crowd should be there.
Read alsoNoise nuisance in Paris: they say thank you to confinement
Some residents are reluctant to reconnect with the decibels under their windows after enjoying relative calm during periods of confinement and curfews.
Bruitparif, the noise observatory in Ile-de-France, recorded a drop of 6 to 20 decibels during the first confinement in the busiest districts of Paris.
08:08.
Everything begins tomorrow.
Curfews, sports, shops ... We take stock with you on what changes from this Wednesday not quite like the others.
07:50.
In France, an “extraordinary transformation” in the management of the crisis?
The Swiss epidemiologist Didier Pittet, who chaired the independent mission on the evaluation of the management of the Covid-19 crisis for 10 months until last March, delivered his report to Emmanuel Macron and Jean Castex yesterday.
"What surprised me the most is the fact of a situation that has changed enormously from the start," he said this morning at the microphone of France Inter.
France was poorly prepared, ”he explains before qualifying his remarks.
Read also Professor Didier Pittet, father of the hydroalcoholic solution
"From the (Editor's note, first) deconfinement already, there has been anticipation", reports the inventor of the hydroalcoholic solution, evoking a "spectacular transformation" in the French management of the crisis, while promising totally independent work .
“Obviously we could all have done better, all over the world.
(…) We are living a unique event since the Spanish flu, there was no ready-made solution to come out of the drawers.
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. @ DidierPittet, on vaccination: "There was a choice to put money, and the French government was very supportive so that Europe put this money in advance".
# le79Inter pic.twitter.com/xAjMyDSO9y
- France Inter (@franceinter) May 18, 2021
07:45.
Antigenic tests forgotten?
Not quite.
We explain in this article what these tests are still used for in pharmacies or in the form of self-tests.
07:34.
In India damaged by Covid-19, a cyclone kills 20.
Tauktae, demoted into a very violent cyclonic storm Tuesday morning, hit India with powerful winds and torrential rains that have already killed at least 20 people, suspending the vaccination campaign against Covid-19.
07:25.
“The public is safe in the theaters.
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This is our columns which will be achieved in the Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot.
It also announces that the music festival, June 21, will not be subject to the requirement of the health pass.
Roselyne Bachelot facing the readers of @le_Parisien this morning.
Interview to read tomorrow in our columns.
@R_Bachelot #RoselyneBachelot # 19mai pic.twitter.com/Oxd0Mmt1YH
- Emmanuel Marolle (@emarolle) May 17, 2021
07:12.
Pfizer, a month in the fridge!
The Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine can be kept in the refrigerator for a month instead of just 5 days, at a temperature of 2 to 8 ° C, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced on Monday.
This good news should particularly benefit countries lacking optimal logistics.
07:05.
D-1!
The terraces of cafes and restaurants will welcome the public from Wednesday.
Some French people have already planned to rediscover their little rituals, regardless of the discouraging weather forecast.
Good news does not come alone, the Minister of Health spoke on Monday evening on the end of the mask outdoors.
"We will get there soon," assures Olivier Véran.
07 hours.
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