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“Let's take care of each other.
"On the eve of Christmas Eve, Emmanuel Macron calls on the French to be cautious, in view of the resumption of Covid-19 contaminations in the country.
"To those who will have the joy of getting together with their family for Christmas: barrier gestures, a preventive test to reassure, and in the event of a symptom, we isolate ourselves, we alert," recommends the President of the Republic on Twitter.
The French are also very numerous to rush on the screenings to avoid any contamination at the table.
What to overwhelm the analysis laboratories, which raise the alert: "If you come in the afternoon of the 24th (for a PCR test, Editor's note), or in the evening, you will not necessarily have your result", a explained François Blanchecotte, national president of the Union of biologists, at the microphone of France Info.
“Even if we managed to reduce the delays to less than 7 hours, it is difficult.
So we have to do it today (Thursday).
We planned to open on Sunday the 26th, the 25th, we have reduced a bit.
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As the Omicron variant threatens to overtake the Delta variant, the number of Covid-19 cases is exploding in France, with 84,272 new cases confirmed on Wednesday.
"We will very likely exceed 100,000 contaminations per day by the end of the month," even warned the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran.
3,147 patients are currently treated in critical care, out of a total of 16,118 hospitalized patients.
What to also remember
In Paris, one in 100 inhabitants tests positive.
The capital is no exception to the multiplication of cases of Covid-19 in France. In Paris, "the incidence rate is 1,000 in 100,000. That means that one in a hundred today has the Covid", declared the mayor Anne Hidalgo (PS) at the microphone of RMC-BFMTV. “The tension is especially on hospitals, continues Anne Hidalgo. (…) It will still lead a lot of people to the hospital, a hospital which is today in an extremely difficult situation ”, testified the elected official.
Algerian War: opening of judicial and police archives.
With 15 years in advance, "the public archives produced within the framework of cases relating to facts committed in connection with the war in Algeria between November 1, 1954 and December 31, 1966" are officially opened by the Ministry of Culture in a decree in the Official Journal. An opening that will perhaps allow historians to shed light on the gray areas of France's action in Algeria.
Joe Biden is already preparing to face Trump in 2024.
Interviewed by the ABC channel Wednesday evening, the US president, aged 79, said he was ready to run for a second term in three years.
“I am someone who respects destiny a lot (…).
If I have the health that I have now, if I am in good health, then I will run again, ”he explained, assuring that having to face Donald Trump again, if he represented the Republicans in 2024, would only add to his motivation.
It concerns you
The holidays are coming, the French are flocking to gifts, foie gras… And self-tests.
Pharmacies are currently being taken by storm for these Covid-19 screening kits to be carried out at home.
Sampling, waiting time, analysis of the result ...
VIDEO.
Tutorial: How to do your self-test properly?
To be reliable, these tests must follow a specific protocol.
Le Parisien guides you step by step in the video above.