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09:11 : @Paul: Nightclubs are reopening today and wearing a mask is only optional, as was already the case this summer and fall. How to explain this flexibility? These places are subject to the presentation of a vaccination pass, which is not the case in the businesses to which you refer.

09:11 : Hello, I don’t quite understand, we remove the masks in nightclubs but not in shops? Or am I wrong? Thank you

09:08 : #WEANSWER YOU @Marie: Hello. It is indeed a question, within two weeks, of remove your mask at the cinema, theater or museum. The About Olivier Véranthis morning, relate this time to closed places not subject to the vaccination pass, such as offices or schools.

09:11 : Hello Yann, I am very surprised to read that the Minister of Health is talking about mid-March, to finally dispense with the mask indoors. A few days ago, we heard that from February 28, the mask would no longer be compulsory in closed spaces subject to the vaccination pass. What is it exactly, please?

09:01 : It’s 9 a.m., let’s take a look at the news:

• Sacred olympic slalom champion, the skier Clément Noël offered a fourth gold medal to the French delegation at the Winter Games in China. We are now following the ladies’ relay in biathlon, with the hope of a 14th podium for the tricolors. Follow our live.

• The obligation to wear a mask in business or at school could end “in mid-March”, declared the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, on this day of lifting of new restrictions in discos, bars, stadiums, cinemas and transport,

• The day after Moscow announced a “partial withdrawal” troops massed on the Ukrainian borders, Russia reported the departure of another part of its forces, which “completed their tactical exercises” in the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea.

• Thanks to a last-minute feat from Kylian Mbappé, PSG have achieved a deserved success against Real Madrid (1-0), last night, in the round of 16 first leg of the Champions League. Argentinian Lionel Messi missed a penalty for the Parisians earlier.

08:46 : “I’m not saying that we will lighten everything, we may keep a comet’s tail”, says the Minister of Health. He mentions in particular a possible maintenance of the vaccination pass in the discotheque beyond mid-March.

08:43 : “In mid-March, we could start to seriously ask ourselves the question of wearing a mask indoors and of the vaccination pass.”

The minister mentions a possible lifting of the obligation of the mask in business or at school within a month, provided that the situation continues to improve and that hospitals find a “normal operating state”.

08:43 : The end of the obligation of the indoor mask could intervene in most places “in mid-March”, says the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran.

08:39 : “It is clearly improving, everywhere, in all French regions. (…) Our strategy of progressive relief [des restrictions] was the good one”

Minister reports contamination three times less important than two weeks ago”which suggests, according to him, a possibility ofget completely out of the wave within a few weeks”.

(FRANCEINFO)

08:33 : On this day of lifting of new health restrictions, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, is the guest of “8:30 franceinfo”. You can follow his interview in our live TV Where our live radio.

08:30 : According to an American study, babies whose mothers were vaccinated during pregnancy less risk than others of developing a severe form of Covid-19. This protection could come from a transfer of antibodies via the placenta.

07:20 : “There is no question of returning with the grandmother’s vaccination pass.”

On our antenna, this union official says he expects to see “more than two thirds of establishments reopen tonight”. Partygoers will be asked to show credentials at the entrance: “Customers will need to present a valid vaccination pass and we will verify the ID.”

08:16 : In short, from today you can once again:

• consume standing up in bars, cafes and restaurants

• drink or eat in stadiums, cinemas and public transport

• go to the club

• go to a standing concert.

07:08 : Are you getting a little lost between all the changes in health rules? We offer you an article listing what is allowed again today and the next reductions planned for the end of the month.

06:56 : Head to the newsstand to smell the fresh morning ink and take the pulse of the national and regional press. Mirror ball atmosphere in several of your newspapers, on the occasion of the reopening of the nightclubs (which had to close again in December).

06:42 : Martinique, placed under curfew since July, sees the exit of the tunnel. The prefecture announces that the night restrictions will begin at 10 p.m. from Friday, against 8 p.m. so far. Our friends from Martinique La 1ère take stock of the rules in force.

06:09 : Here are the first titles of this Wednesday, February 16:

• Thanks to the decline of the fifth wave, the government lifts new restrictions from today. It is possible to return to discotheques, to consume standing up in bars or to eat and drink in stadiums, cinemas and transport.

• Russian President Vladimir Putin has confirmed a “partial withdrawal” troops massed on the Ukrainian borders. It is “a first encouraging signal”greeted Emmanuel Macron, even if, according to the United States, “An invasion remains quite possible”.

• Nicolas Bay, spokesperson for Marine Le Pen’s campaign, has been suspended from his duties within the National Rally. The party accuses him of having transmitted confidential information to Eric Zemmoura “sabotage” disputed by the accused.

• Thanks to a last-minute feat from Kylian Mbappé, PSG have achieved a deserved success against Real Madrid (1-0), last night, in the round of 16 first leg of the Champions League. Argentinian Lionel Messi missed a penalty for the Parisians earlier.