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68 patients died yesterday from Covid-19.
Across the country, 10,463 patients are in hospitals and 2,106 in critical care.
For the sixth consecutive Saturday, 175,503 demonstrators marched in many cities in France against the health pass.
In the French Antilles, the situation is still worrying.
The elected officials of Guadeloupe have asked for "a postponement of the start of the school year" scheduled for the beginning of September.
On some islands in Polynesia, schools close for two weeks tomorrow.
More than 200 people were arrested yesterday after heavy clashes between protesters and police in Sydney and Melbourne.
Protesters oppose lockdown which has been extended and extended in Australia's two largest cities.
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7.40 am.
Tick tock.
It is tomorrow that the American intelligence services must give President Biden a report on the origins of Covid-19.
7:35.
Teen volunteers will be able to be vaccinated in middle and high school.
For pupils over 12 who wish, "depending on the situation, either mobile teams will come to vaccinate in the establishments, or we will organize the movement of volunteer pupils, in connection with the health services, to the vaccination centers" , said Jean-Michel Blanquer.
The pupil's vaccination status will be communicated on the basis of a certificate of vaccination from the parents.
7:30 am.
The health pass will not be requested from teachers.
For teachers, Jean-Michel Blanquer judges "neither legitimate, neither desirable, nor useful" to require a health pass, preferring to bet on "a logic of trust and responsibility".
7:25 am.
The back-to-school protocol.
The Minister of National Education is back… in the JDD.
Jean-Michel Blanquer announces that the protocol adopted is that of “level 2”, which provides for face-to-face lessons in schools, colleges and high schools, the obligatory mask inside from primary school, and the limitation of mixing.
7:20 a.m.
Yesterday they were ...
"The yellow number", a Facebook page which aggregates the given figures of participation transmitted by the demonstrators in the processions, for the moment establishes the participation in the anti-pass demonstrations of yesterday at 357,100 (against 175,503 for the prefectures).
7:10.
Reverend Jesse Jackson hospitalized.
Iconic civil rights activist in the United States, Martin Luther King's fellow traveler in the 1960s, Jesse Jackson, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, was hospitalized after testing positive for Covid-19.
His wife Jacqueline, 77, is too.
The Reverend was vaccinated last January.
7 hours.
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