DIRECT. Covid-19: demonstrations against the health pass planned throughout France

The essential

• Several demonstrations will be held today in different cities of France against the implementation of the health pass.

  In Paris, one of them will be held at 2:30 p.m. Place du Trocadéro.

  About 114,000 people demonstrated across France last Saturday.

• After its vote in the National Assembly, the text of the law on the extension of the health pass is examined today all day in the Senate.

  Consideration of articles and amendments begins at 9:30 a.m.

• In France, the epidemic resumes and the number of contaminations explodes with nearly 21,493 new cases in 24 hours.

  A figure to be put into perspective, due to an incident on the flow of data feedback.

  As of Thursday, 21,909 positive cases had been identified in 24 hours.

  Nearly 6,800 patients are hospitalized and there have been 26 deaths in the last 24 hours.

Follow the events of the day live:

8 hours. The text of the law on the health pass examined today by the senators.

After the vote of the National Assembly, it is the turn of the Senate to examine the health bill. Senators gave the first green light in committee on Friday to the bill which provides for compulsory vaccination for caregivers and the controversial extension of the health pass. However, they conditioned the latter on the reestablishment of a state of health emergency. Consideration of articles and amendments will begin at 9:30 a.m.

7:55 am. Towards a "yellow vest" of the anti-health pass movement?

Behind the sanitary pass, the specter of yellow vests worries the executive, who hopes that the device will not coagulate anger, as before him the carbon tax. "The conspiratorial atmosphere, the use of fake news, mistrust of institutions: we find the components of the yellow vests of the end", estimates a heavyweight of the government. Our decryption.

7.45 a.m. Nearly 110,000 demonstrators expected in France.

"For freedom" and "against the health dictatorship", dozens of demonstrations are again planned this Saturday throughout France, against the extension of the health pass and compulsory vaccination for certain professions. In Paris, three events have been declared to the prefecture: at noon from Place de la Bastille to Porte de Champerret, as well as between Place Malraux and Les Invalides, and at 2:30 p.m. at Trocadéro.

7:30 am. A "health pass" imposed on children in Nice.

The mayor of Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) Christian Estrosi has also decided to tighten up the health rules for leisure and reception centers, reports Nice-Matin. As of Monday, children will only be accommodated in holiday centers "if they are provided with a PCR test of less than 24 hours or, for those over 12 years of age, with a vaccination certificate." Saliva tests will be authorized ”. The detail to find in our article.

7:20 a.m.

Nearly 32.8 million French people have a complete vaccination schedule.

Since the start of the vaccination campaign in France, 39,474,866 people have received at least one injection (i.e. 58.5% of the total population) and 32,790,372 people now have a complete vaccination schedule (i.e. 48.6% of the total population), according to still provisional data from the Directorate General of Health.

7:10.

In France, 21,493 new cases in 24 hours

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This figure may need to be put into perspective, due to an incident in the flow of data.

As of Thursday, 21,909 positive cases had been identified in 24 hours.

A level never seen since mid-May.

The figures in detail in our article.

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