A case of Omicron in Beijing, opponents of the vaccine pass in the street, Djokovic on borrowed time...
Le Figaro
takes stock this Saturday January 15 on the latest information related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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A case of Omicron detected in Beijing
A case of Omicron has been detected in Beijing, authorities in the Chinese capital announced on Saturday, where the Winter Olympics are to open on February 4, as the country battles several outbreaks of the highly contagious variant of the coronavirus.
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This announcement comes after Zhuhai, a coastal city of 2.4 million inhabitants in the south-east of the country, near Macao, imposed travel restrictions, following the discovery of seven cases of contamination by the Omicron variant.
Millions of Chinese have been ordered to stay home in recent weeks, dozens of domestic flights have been canceled and entire factories closed as authorities seek to stem the outbreak ahead of the Olympics.
Boris Johnson and "
Friday aperitifs
" in Downing Street
Aperitifs were organized every Friday in Downing Street during confinement, says the British daily The Mirror, extending the list of accusations against British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Read alsoBoris Johnson gets bogged down in “Partygate”
The curator is accused of having participated in several festivities during confinements in the midst of a health crisis.
The protest against him is rumbling, including in the ranks of the Conservatives.
Djokovic, "
public danger
"
For the second time in ten days, Novak Djokovic has been returned to administrative detention in Melbourne.
The Australian Immigration Minister had canceled his visa the day before, arguing that the world number one tennis player not vaccinated against Covid-19 constitutes a "
public danger
".
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His presence in Australia could encourage anti-vaccination sentiment,
" he said.
Read alsoNovak Djokovic, an endless fiasco
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The Australian Open is much more important than any player
," retorted his rival, Rafael Nadal, who does not hide his annoyance two days before the opening of the Australian Open.
Disabled passes in France and opponents in the street
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Resistant Djokovic
", "
Liberty
", "
No to the vaccine
": opponents of the health pass, which will become a vaccine pass, demonstrated on Saturday in France, the same day when many deactivations were to take place for lack of a reminder of an anti-vaccine -Covid.
A few hours before these parades, the deputies adopted in the night the controversial bill transforming the health pass into a vaccine pass at second reading.
The debates resumed in the Senate, before a final vote of the National Assembly on Sunday afternoon.
Read alsoLack of information or refusal: why thousands of French people today lose their health pass
In the absence of an anti-Covid reminder, tens of thousands of sanitary passes were to be deactivated on Saturday, a deadline set for November.
Tension with the police during an anti-vaccine demonstration in Italy
Moments of tension with the police and some slight scuffles were recorded on Saturday afternoon during a demonstration of anti-vaccines and anti-vaccination passes in the center of Rome, AFP noted.
About a thousand people had gathered for a sit-in, authorized by the police, on the square of Saint John Lateran when a small group of demonstrators wanted to leave in an unauthorized procession towards the historic center, causing law enforcement and police vehicles in riot gear to block them.
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Several other demonstrations have also taken place in Italy to denounce the vaccination pass as well as the recent vaccination obligation for all people over the age of 50.