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Towards a possible new call for vigilance.
A Health Defense Council is being held this Monday to decide on the strategy to be adopted, while the Covid-19 epidemic is soaring across the country and affecting many children.
For the moment, there is no question of curfew or re-containment, but rather of a tightening of the screws, with an acceleration of the vaccination booster campaign, and a possible strengthening of controls in the places receiving public.
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The Head of State Emmanuel Macron had already promised to provide answers with "pragmatism, proportion and philosophy", in the face of an epidemic situation which has continued to deteriorate in recent weeks.
Thanks to a very contagious Delta variant and a vaccine effectiveness dulling over time, the number of new daily cases now stands in the tens of thousands, with 42,252 cases recorded on Sunday.
More worryingly, the number of hospitalized patients is now over 11,000, a threshold that had not been reached since the end of August.
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A first meeting of Eric Zemmour under tension.
Anti-racist activists targeted by beatings, journalists manhandled and Eric Zemmour grabbed by an activist: the first rally of the newly declared presidential candidate was marked by a series of violence on Sunday evening.
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Covid-19: sick leaves have multiplied this year.
Longer and more numerous, sick leaves started to rise again in 2021, reaching 38%.
They spare neither teleworkers, nor managers, nor SMEs, announces Malakoff Humanis in his annual barometer that we unveil.
Many figures are on the rise, such as the share of outages linked to Covid which has doubled, from 6% to 12%.
Aung San Suu Kyi condemned by the military junta.
The former head of the Burmese government was sentenced Monday to 4 years in prison for inciting public disturbances and violating health rules related to Covid.
This sentence is the first pronounced against the former icon of democracy, pursued by the junta on numerous other charges, and who risks ending his days in detention.
The unexpected info
The French manufacturer ArianeGroup intends to develop a reusable mini-launcher to compete with SpaceX, pioneers of this technology, announced the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire, during a visit to Vernon, in Eure.
A first firing must take place in four years, in 2026, according to the minister, who hopes to see the birth, one day, of a French Falcon 9.