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1:06 pm: For Valéry Pécresse, Emmanuel Macron arouses “discord and contempt”

During a press conference given this Saturday in her campaign HQ in Paris, the LR candidate for the presidential election lambasted the President of the Republic. Valéry Pécresse speaks of a “pyromaniac president” who arouses, through his statements, “discord and contempt”, reports Le Figaro.

According to her, Emmanuel Macron “feeds the rejection of all authority figures, fractures the country and divides the French”. A statement that comes after the remarks made by the President of the Republic last week, declaring that he wants to “piss off to the end” the unvaccinated.

12:41 p.m .: The anti-pass demonstration underway in Paris

Yellow vests, anti-vaccines and people opposed to the government’s health policy are gathered in Paris this Saturday despite the rain. Among the hundred or so demonstrators, Georgette, 65: “Insulting people as Macron did is not governing. To say that the unvaccinated are irresponsible, that shocks me! », She launches to our reporter present on the spot.

11:34 am: “Piss off” the unvaccinated: “not my vocabulary”, says the Belgian Prime Minister

Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said he wanted to “annoy the virus and not annoy people”, expressing his disagreement with Emmanuel Macron’s controversial remarks on the unvaccinated, in a newspaper interview The evening published on Saturday.
“Clearly, this is not my vocabulary”, reacted the Belgian leader, asked about the statements of the French president who said he wanted to “piss off” the unvaccinated against the Covid-19.

10:47 am: Quebec bans access to alcohol and cannabis stores for non-vaccinated people

Quebec, the Canadian province most affected by the Omicron wave, has decided to introduce restrictions against the unvaccinated to “protect them against themselves” and “make them understand that they must stay at home” .

10:09 am: Cluster on a cruise in the Caribbean Sea

A couple from Mauguio, near Montpellier (Hérault), embarked in early January for a magnificent cruise in the Caribbean Sea. A nice moment that turned into a nightmare: because of the epidemic, they are stranded on the ship, which has become a cluster. All ports refuse stopovers. The story is told on France 3.

9:50 am: A night curfew introduced in Saint-Martin

A nighttime curfew was introduced in Saint-Martin from this Friday and the health pass made compulsory to try to stem an “exponential increase in contamination” with Covid-19, announced the prefect Serge Gouteyron.

9:15 am: Germany restricts access to restaurants and bars

Faced with the rise in infections with the Omicron variant, Germany will further restrict access to restaurants and cafes but reduce the quarantine periods to avoid a possible paralysis of the country, announced Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

8:40 am: For Djokovic, lawyers invoke a Covid infection in December justifying the exemption

World tennis player Novak Djokovic benefited from an exemption from vaccination against Covid-19 because he had contracted the virus in December, his lawyers estimated in a document filed on Saturday in court.
“The date of the first positive Covid PCR test was recorded on December 16, 2021,” they said in a document filed with federal court, which seeks to overturn the rejection of his visa to enter Australia.

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8:15 am: The world passes the 300 million case milestone and fights against Omicron

The official figure of Covid-19 cases, certainly underestimated, has passed the 300 million mark as countries fight the spread of the Omicron variant and step up vaccination campaigns.
According to an AFP count established from official reports, at least 300,042,439 cases of infection have been diagnosed since the WHO office in China reported the onset of the disease in late December 2019.

7:50 am: Senior officials in quarantine in Hong Kong

Dozens of senior Hong Kong officials were sent to a 21-day quarantine camp after rubbing shoulders with infected people at a party that brought together many of the city’s political elite.

6:56 am: The 300,000 barrier of Covid-19 dead in Mexico

The threshold of 300,000 deaths from Covid-19 was crossed on Friday in Mexico, the fifth most affected country in absolute terms in the world, in the midst of the pandemic rebounding around the world.
In absolute terms, the United States is the most bereaved country with 836,241 dead, followed by Brazil (619,822), India (483,178) and Russia (314,604).
Mexico recorded 28,023 new cases on Friday, the second highest figure since the start of the pandemic, for a total of more than four million.

6:51 am: The antivax back in the street, fear of tensions

The “anti-tax” are back in the streets this Saturday, where 144 actions are planned in the country. And the context lends itself to a renewed mobilization, between the remarkable statements of Emmanuel Macron who wants to “piss off” the unvaccinated and the adoption in the National Assembly of the vaccination pass. In Paris, yellow vests are also planned to demonstrate … and the authorities fear that Black Blocs will join the processions.

6:49 am: The parents of the students “crack”, the unions call for a strike

Test your children every two days, come and pick them up urgently because of cases of Covid-19 … Many parents of students in France express their fed-up after the start of the school year marked by a “very complicated protocol” , and the teachers’ unions call for a strike. “Parents become goats” and start to get annoyed, summarizes Laurent Zameczkowski, vice-president of a federation of parents of pupils (Peep). “Parents crack completely. , because for those who work, it becomes very complicated, they run everywhere ”, adds Nageate Belahcen, co-president of another federation of parents (FCPE).

The unions therefore called for a national strike on Thursday, January 13 “to obtain the conditions for a secure school under Omicron”.

6:47 am: More than 300,000 contaminations, the wave rises in the hospital

The daily number of Covid-19 contaminations remains at a very high level, above 300,000, and hospitalizations are still increasing, according to official figures released Friday evening. Exactly, Public Health France recorded 328,214 new cases. The weekly average stands at 267,000. The 100,000 mark was only crossed on December 29.

Beyond the cases of contamination, the wave continues to rise in the hospital, but in a lesser proportion than the surge in the number of cases. 21,605 Covid patients are hospitalized (436 patients admitted in 24 hours), including 3,815 (+46 admissions) in critical care, reserved for the most serious cases.

230,000

Olivier Véran affirmed that this week 230,000 first-time injections had been carried out this week, a level unprecedented since last September.

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