The info not to be missed
In the midst of the outbreak of the new variant, Emmanuel Macron is chairing, this Monday, from the fort of Brégançon (Var), a health defense council scheduled for 4 p.m.
Measures are on the table, in particular on the duration of isolation of contact cases.
According to our information, a postponement of the start of the school year and a curfew on December 31 were, on the other hand, this Monday at midday, not the tracks favored by the executive, which ruled out putting gauges back in the public places.
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"The real subject that we have is the disorganization in the companies, insists a government source.
We need to use the knowledge we have on Omicron, and adapt our strategy.
”Implied: reduce the period of isolation to limit absenteeism in companies.
While France has exceeded the mark of 100,000 cases recorded in 24 hours this Saturday, “Omicron is undoubtedly dominant in Île-de-France, where the incidence is skyrocketing.
In the Paca region, it is Delta which saturates the resuscitations, they are at more than 100% of use of resuscitation beds ", explained this morning, on France Inter, the epidemiologist Dominique Costagliola.
What to also remember
The body of a young man, who was no longer sought, discovered.
Thirteen years after having vanished into thin air, Jérôme Della-Longa's skeleton has just been found at the bottom of a ravine in the Var hinterland, close to the carcass of his car. The young man was not even on the file of missing persons. Orphan, this young man born in Avignon (Vaucluse) like a large part of his family, lived between several homes with mainly uncles and aunts. This morning in 2008, he left his uncle's house without warning.
Costly climate tragedies.
The ten costliest weather disasters of 2021 topped $ 170 billion in total damage, according to NGO Christian Aid. These ten disasters also killed at least 1,075 and displaced more than 1.3 million people, according to this annual report published on Monday. Last year, the amount of economic damage from the ten most costly weather events was calculated at nearly $ 150 billion by the NGO. The most costly disaster was Storm Ida (late August early September) with an estimated $ 65 billion and also around fifty deaths.
The escapee from Osny prison arrested in Germany.
End of a six-day run for Louis Folkert and his accomplice (and companion).
The 28-year-old detainee who escaped while being taken to the emergency room of Pontoise hospital (Val-d'Oise), was arrested in Düsseldorf by German police.
Epilogue of a violent escape during which a prison supervisor was injured, avoiding the worst thanks to the wearing of his bulletproof vest.
Locked up since the beginning of October for the assassination of Alfred, 18, committed on September 28 in Valenton (Val-de-Marne), he had simulated a suicide attempt by seriously slashing his forearm.
The unexpected info:
In theaters, spider-man erases a pre-pandemic record.
Released in theaters less than two weeks ago, Wednesday, December 15, the new Spider-Man became the first film of the Covid era to gross more than a billion dollars.
This was indicated on Sunday by Exhibitor Relations, a firm specializing in the film industry.
It is even the best start of a film since the start of the pandemic: it is necessary to go back to the version in real images of the "Lion King", in July 2019, to find such a score.
He thus joined “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” which had achieved this performance in 2015, according to Variety magazine, despite the spread of Omicron which is now disturbing the whole world.