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After two turbulent weeks, the text passed.
On Sunday evening, Parliament definitively adopted, by a final vote of the Assembly, the controversial bill introducing the vaccination pass from the age of 16, which the government wants to see come into force as soon as possible in the face of the "tidal wave of Covid-19.
The text was approved by 215 votes in favour, those of the majority, two-thirds of the LRs and a minority of the Socialists.
They were 58 deputies to vote against, including the left of the left, the UDI and the RN, and three LREM dissidents.
Seven deputies abstained.
Two different appeals to the Constitutional Council are planned on the left, to guarantee respect for “fundamental freedoms”, which will postpone the promulgation for a few days.
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While some 300,000 contaminations have been recorded daily on average for a week, the government hopes for the implementation of the vaccination pass around January 21.
It will then be necessary to be able to justify a vaccination status to access leisure activities, restaurants and bars, fairs or interregional public transport.
A negative test will no longer suffice, except to access health facilities and services.
Minors aged 12 to 15 will remain subject to the obligation to present the current health pass.
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Covid-19: “The worst-case scenario is slipping away”.
Even if hospitals will remain very much in demand by the epidemic in February, “the decline has begun, the peak of infections has passed these days, at least in Île-de-France. Hospital admissions are expected to peak in the coming week,” epidemiologist Arnaud Fontanet told France Inter.
New excavations in the Jubillar case.
New searches were launched this Monday in Cagnac-les-Mines, the village of Tarn where Delphine Jubillar lived until her disappearance in December 2020, mobilizing gendarmes and soldiers from the Specialized Operational Excavations (FOS), a unit of the 'army. Investigators still hope to find the body of the missing nurse, believing that it will provide them with valuable clues to elucidate this case. The main suspect in the case, her husband, Cédric Jubillar, was indicted for murder and imprisoned on June 18. He claims to be innocent.
Djokovic soon back in Europe.
The 34-year-old Serbian tennis player, who refuses to be vaccinated against Covid, left Melbourne with his coaches on Sunday evening, after the Federal Court of Australia upheld the government's decision to cancel his visa, ending eleven days of drama regarding the rules for entering the country. He made a stopover early Monday morning in Dubai, as the Australian Open has just started.
The Tonga islands cut off from the world.
After a powerful volcanic eruption on Saturday, the Pacific archipelago is deprived of telephone and Internet connections, the cataclysm having severed a cable essential for its communications which should not be repaired for weeks.
A cloud of volcanic ash prevents planes from landing.
Information from this country of barely 100,000 inhabitants is trickling in, thanks to rare satellite phones, and the true extent of the damage remains largely unknown.
it concerns you
New mobilization in schools.
After the large-scale movement last Thursday, several unions issued a press release calling for a new strike on Thursday in schools, colleges and high schools, in order to demand "strong responses" in the face of the "chaos" caused by the crisis. health, and massive investments in education.
The unions FSU, CGT Educ'action, FO and SUD Education, as well as the FCPE, the first organization of parents of pupils, and the high school student movements FIDL, MNL and La Voix lycéenne are among the signatories.