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Barely implemented, the new school health protocol to deal with the spread of the Omicron variant has just been relaxed slightly. While more than 9,200 classes have already had to close due to Covid-19 in barely four days - and that the parents of students are faced with ever more constraints, in particular the difficulty of providing themselves with self-tests - the students will no longer have to start the course of the three tests again if a new positive case in their class occurs within less than seven days, indicates since Thursday evening, the website of the Ministry of National Education.
Concretely, the cycle of screening a child "only restarts if a second confirmed case has had contact with other students after a period of 7 days following the identification of the first case", specifies the ministry in an update. day of his questions and answers on the Covid.
A modification which should partly lighten the organization of parents, who had to have their children carry out a PCR or antigen test for each new positive case declared in the class, then carry out a self-test on D + 2 and D + 4 so that they can go back to class.
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An investigation opened by the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office after the explosion of a vehicle on the Dakar.
Frenchman Phillippe Boutron was seriously injured in the explosion of his vehicle in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia before the start of the race on Thursday, December 30. He is now "out of a coma," his son said on RMC. "On the Dakar, it is perhaps a terrorist attack", judged the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, this morning on BFMTV, estimating that "perhaps it was worth it to give up this demonstration athletic ". Earlier this week, several members of the pilot's team also raised the thesis of the attack.
Russian troops in Kazakhstan to support the ruling power.
Since Sunday, the former Soviet republic, the world's largest producer of uranium, has been grappling with violent protests in the provinces after the decision to increase the prices of liquefied gas, the daily fuel for vehicles. Called to the rescue within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Russia quickly parachuted troops in addition to the Kazakh device to restore order in the country. All regions have been "liberated and placed under increased protection", with 70 checkpoints established in the country, the Kazakh interior ministry said. Dozens of deaths have been recorded.
Michel Houellebecq's new novel in bookstores.
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Annihilate"
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the new anticipation novel by the bestselling author released this Friday by Flammarion editions, plunges us alongside Paul Raison, special advisor and confidant of a super minister of the Economy called, perhaps, to succeed to an Emmanuel Macron never appointed and struck by the constitutional ban on running for a third term in a row.
Through its antihero, the novel also evokes in an intimate and current way the question of the end of life.
It's a safe bet that fiction will once again animate many political debates.
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Bad news for the French wallet. Contributions from mutuals - which represent half of the health insurance sector - will increase by an average of 3.4% in 2022, according to Mutualité Française. This study, the results of which Le Parisien is unveiling, was carried out with 32 organizations covering 17 million French people. Last year, the increase was limited to 2.6% in line with the previous decade.
In detail, the rate of increase remains below 2.4% for half of the mutuals.
Some 20% of policyholders will even benefit from a rate freeze.
At the other end of the spectrum, 5% of the population covered by a mutual see their contributions soar by 5.3% or more.
Finally, the prices of compulsory collective contracts (+ 3.8%) rise more than individual contracts (+ 3.2%) and optional collective contracts (+ 2.9%).
This is surprising news when Olivier Véran, the Minister of Health had demanded this fall, in exchange for the non-renewal of the Covid tax, that the prices of complementary health insurance do not increase in 2022 and that they "restore to their members the savings made ”during the confinements of the year 2020.