The info to remember
It's their turn to get vaccinated.
After a Health Defense Council, the government announced, Monday evening, the imminent opening of vaccination to children aged 5 to 11, "on a voluntary basis, if possible by the end of the year" .
From next Thursday, schoolchildren will have to wear the mask in the playgrounds, while their team sports sessions will be restricted from Monday.
Brewing should also be limited to the canteen.
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Another measure to tighten the screws: nightclubs will be closed from next Friday until early January, because "wearing a mask is extremely difficult in these establishments".
The State promises to support the companies concerned, but also "the event sectors or even caterers" who will see their activity impacted by the crisis.
In companies, checks will be carried out from next week to verify whether the extension of teleworking "to two to three days" per week to limit the dissemination of the Covid is "well implemented", announced on LCI the minister du Travail Élisabeth Borne.
“I asked the Labor Inspectorate to resume its checks, to return to 5,000 checks per month.
We were less than a thousand in October, ”she said.
Faced with the recent surge in cases of Covid-19 contamination and the rise in hospital figures, the government is campaigning above all for an acceleration of the vaccination of the most vulnerable.
From Tuesday, those over 65 will be able to gain priority access to a booster dose, without needing to make an appointment.
For the moment, "the time is not for gauge, curfew or containment measures," said Prime Minister Jean Castex, alongside Minister of Health Olivier Véran, Monday evening.
What to also remember
A building collapses in Sanary-sur-Mer (Var).
A man was found dead Tuesday in the rubble of an apartment building that collapsed overnight in an explosion possibly caused by gas. Firefighters are still looking for two missing after saving a woman and her baby. Three other people were slightly injured.
Éric Zemmour denies all responsibility for the violence that occurred during his meeting.
"These people did not have to be there, I do not feel responsible in any way", reacted the presidential candidate after the violence targeting SOS Racism activists, and the stormy evacuation of journalists during his meeting. "If these people (the opponents) do not come" to his next meetings, the violence "will not happen again", explained the polemicist, wishing to recall that he himself had been injured in the wrist.
Suspicion of doping: a crackdown in the horse racing world.
According to our information, trainers, veterinarians and trainers are targeted by an investigation carried out for several months by the judicial police and which targets in particular the Rossi family, well known in the racing world, for equine doping, criminal association, forgery. and use of forgery.
The unexpected info
A disrupted schedule.
The United Arab Emirates have decided to change their weekend from Friday-Saturday (as in many Arab countries) to Saturday-Sunday, and institute a four-and-a-half-day work week.
In addition to Saturday-Sunday, the inhabitants of the Emirates will thus have an additional half-day of rest in the afternoon of Friday, the day of the weekly great prayer in Muslim countries.