The health pass in the Assembly, the flu, PSG without Neymar: the information to remember this afternoon

The info not to be missed

The so-called “health vigilance” bill is being examined from this Tuesday afternoon in the National Assembly. Its main provision is to extend the possibility for the government to impose the health pass until July 31, 2021. More broadly, decreeing a state of health emergency with its attendant restrictions will give it a "toolbox" In which he will not necessarily be obliged to draw. It is a question of "avoiding at all costs a new wave" which would saturate hospitals in the middle of winter, said the Minister of Health Olivier Véran in front of the deputies. This Tuesday morning, Gabriel Attal, the government spokesman, also warned that "for a week the epidemic has started to regain ground, we must be vigilant".

Still, the debates promise to hang with the oppositions, right and left, who fear, or even denounce, an attack on freedoms.

Gérard Larcher, president of the Senate with a right-wing majority, has already announced that there was "no question of giving a blank check" to the executive for such a long and politically sensitive period.

"The exceptional has become the norm", worried for his part the deputy Charles de Courson (Liberties and Territories).

What to also remember

• Four days early for the flu shot.

  From Friday, all priority audiences will be able to be vaccinated against the flu, four days ahead of the initially scheduled date. “This year, in a context of circulation of the Covid-19 and influenza viruses, the risk of co-infection and the development of serious forms and death” is increased, justifies the Directorate General of Health. The idea is also to boost the booster vaccination campaign against Covid-19, the two injections being able to be carried out at the same time and in two different arms.

• Lower taxes or fuel check?

  The government will announce "by the end of the week" a "simple, fair and effective" device to help the French face rising fuel prices, said spokesperson Gabriel Attal. “The last arbitrations are in progress. What matters to us is to take a decision and have a measure which is simple, which is fair, and which is effective ”, he stressed on RTL about these“ protective measures ”. of consumers faced with rising prices at the pump. "It's a matter of days," he added, referring to a decision "by the end of the week".

• Call for vigilance in the face of the epidemic.

  On RTL again, government spokesman Gabriel Attal explained that "the epidemic has started to gain ground again" for a week. "It's very light, we start from a very low level", he nevertheless qualified, explaining that it was "much too early" to speak of a fifth wave. "It is no longer decreasing in hospitals, but we had reached a low level," he added, calling in spite of everything to remain "vigilant".

• Tired of accompanying disabled students to school.

  Many AESH mobilized this Tuesday for a day of strike against the precariousness and the degradation of their working conditions. Salaries, status, training, working conditions… The list of reasons for dissatisfaction is long for those accompanying disabled children, formerly called auxiliaries de vie scolaire (AVS). A profession "90% female", "in great precariousness", but "essential to the life of schools," said Guislaine David, general secretary of Snuipp-FSU, the first primary union.

• Neymar, injured, absent with PSG.

  The Brazilian star of Paris SG has withdrawn from the Champions League game against RB Leipzig on Tuesday night, due to a groin injury.

  The striker "will have to extend a period of care for a few days before a normal return to the group," warned PSG, leaving doubt around his participation in the "Clasico" of Ligue 1 in Marseille on Sunday.

  The 29-year-old player has been in pain since his return from selection, with which he played on the night of Thursday to Friday against Uruguay (4-1).

The unexpected info

Off the Charente-Maritime as far as Brittany, fishermen have been encountering a completely new phenomenon since September: an exponential presence of common octopus.

“Last year we counted around 1.8 tonnes of octopus.

Currently, we are already at more than 32 tonnes ”, assures Nicolas Dubois, the director of the port of La Cotinière and its auction where the catches of nearly 120 boats are exchanged.

“We have no rational explanation,” he continues.

I spoke to elders about it, they've never seen it.

This invasion of octopus on the Atlantic coast is endangering other species, such as mussels, oysters and scallops whose fishing will begin in November, as well as lobsters.