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More than 368,000 new contaminations were recorded Tuesday in 24 hours by Public Health France, a new record.
23,371 people are currently hospitalized due to a Covid-19 infection,
including nearly 4000 in intensive care, and 270 new deaths are recorded.
A "tidal wave" commented the Minister of Health.
After an agitated adoption by the deputies, the Senate dominated by the right-wing opposition has been examining since Tuesday afternoon the bill transforming the health pass into a vaccination pass.
It has removed the possibility for managers of bars and restaurants to verify the identity of its owner.
Teachers will strike Thursday to denounce a complex health protocol and a communication deemed hazardous.
The Snuipp-FSU, the first primary union, announces 75% of strikers and half of the schools closed.
"I do everything to keep the school open", defends Jean-Michel Blanquer.
The bosses of the various political groups in the National Assembly denounced the violence committed by anti-health or anti-vaccine activists against elected officials.
More than 300 complaints for "death threats" have been filed since July 2021 and the establishment of the health pass, indicates the Minister of the Interior.
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7 hours.
Senators are removing identity verification from bars and restaurants.
The Senate removed during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday the possibility for the managers of places and activities subject to the vaccination pass, to verify the identity of its holder. A measure that had been welcomed freshly by the owners of bars, cafes and restaurants, and that the senators rebutted via a series of ten amendments made by elected officials from the left as from the right. The deputies will nevertheless be able to reinstate this controversial provision in the continuation of the parliamentary shuttle.
Because the text voted by the National Assembly on first reading provided that in addition to the police, the managers of places and activities subject to the pass could carry out identity checks, but under very supervised conditions. This was to allow them to request an "official identity document", "when there are serious reasons for believing that the document presented is not authentic or does not relate to the person presenting it".
6:45 a.m.
Omicron, the end of the pandemic?
More than half of Europeans could be affected by the Omicron variant within two months, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), but this "tidal wave" which is also hitting the United States could, thanks to natural immunity and vaccination, transform the Covid-19 into an endemic disease with which the world can live, estimated American and European health officials on Tuesday.
6:35 am.
A black Thursday in perspective in schools.
All the teachers' unions have massively called for a strike this Thursday, January 13 to protest against the government's management of the fifth wave of Covid at school.
A mobilization that also affects colleges and high schools.
6.30 a.m.
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