After Omicron, BoJo celebrations and coup d'etat in Burkina: the news to remember this afternoon

The info not to miss

A tense situation in the hospital until mid-March?

Asked this Tuesday morning on Franceinfo, the president of the scientific council Jean-François Delfraissy estimated that the time has come to change our "software" in the management of the epidemic. According to him, we would have changed the paradigm with the arrival of the Omicron variant. “We will end up at 15.16 or 17 million French people infected. But there is no evolution, there is even a drop in the number of admissions and the occupation of beds in hospitals ”. Jean-François Delfraissy anticipates the arrival of a plateau of contaminations, which could leave tensions in the hospital until mid-March.

Asked for his part about LCI, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran notably gave an update on the state of scientific knowledge on the BA.2 variant, “cousin” of Omicron.

According to him, it would not be more contagious and “nothing suggests that it could be different”.

In the bad news section, Olivier Véran however suggested that it would be possible to be infected with the BA.2 variant after an Omicron infection.

What else to remember

• Coup confirmed in Burkina.

  The Patriotic Movement for Safeguarding and Restoration (MPSR) "which brings together all the components of the defense and security forces has decided to put an end to the power of Mr. Marc Roch Christian Kaboré this January 24, 2022", announced Monday evening on television Burkinabe Captain Kader Ouedraogo, surrounded by about fifteen soldiers.

  The land and air borders will be closed from midnight, the government and the National Assembly dissolved and the constitution “suspended”, announce the soldiers.

  A curfew is also in place from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. - local time - throughout the territory.

  President Emmanuel Macron, traveling in Haute-Vienne, condemned a "military coup".

• Darmanin gets involved in the Gims controversy.

  The Minister of the Interior does not seem really willing for the singer to obtain French nationality, which was already refused to him in 2018. For him, Gims is "holding a rigorous Islam". “The adherents of rigorous Islam are not good proof of assimilation into the French community”. The singer had created controversy by refusing to be wished the new year which does not correspond to the Muslim calendar.

• BoJo's setbacks.

  Latest disappointment to date: according to the ITV television channel, Boris Johnson participated in this party organized by his wife Carrie on June 19, 2020 in the afternoon, during the first confinement, when such gatherings were then prohibited.

  An investigation has been opened "in relation to potential breaches of the rules relating to Covid-19", the London police chief announced on Tuesday.

• Towards a new cap on bank charges?

  Two MPs from the Libertés et Territoires group, Bertrand Pancher and Charles de Courson, want to divide bank charges by four for people in financially precarious situations.

  A bill will be examined in committee on Tuesday January 25, before being put to the vote on February 4.

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Where to live to enjoy the greenery of Paris?

As more and more Parisians are responding to the call for green and leaving the capital, we have analyzed the share of green spaces for the inhabitants of the 80 districts of Paris, in their area as well as in a strip of 1 km around of this one.

There appear to be deep territorial disparities in Paris in terms of green spaces.

Obviously, the Bois de Vincennes and Boulogne are directly at the origin of this.

Discover the unpublished ranking of the Parisian by clicking on this link.