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These last two days have allowed you to rest from the news and forget everything, thanks to the real winter weather and its blanket of snow all over the country.
So much the better!
But on the eve of the resumption (teleworking), an update on the situation is necessary.
1-National curfew in the snow before the start of general public vaccination
The day after a first evening under a bell, with an advanced curfew at 6 p.m. across the country, France is preparing to expand the vaccination against Covid-19 on Monday in an attempt to win a tough battle against the virus which already killed more than 70,000 people, including 196 on Saturday.
The entire metropolitan area experienced the evening curfew on Saturday, in force until then in 25 departments, without major inconvenience, except for a clandestine evening in the suburbs of Grenoble which the police put an end to.
While the intensive care units, which welcome seriously ill patients, are always full, with 2,731 patients on Saturday and 188 new admissions in 24 hours, a "surge" of the epidemic is likely in March, warned Arnaud Fontanet, epidemiologist on Sunday. member of the scientific council.
Especially since cases of the South African and British variant were detected in metropolitan France, in Reunion Island and Mayotte this weekend.
2-Opponent Alexeï Navalny back in Russia despite the risks
Russian opponent Alexeï Navalny is due to return to Moscow this Sunday after several months of convalescence in Germany where he was recovering from suspected poisoning.
A return decided and maintained despite the almost immediate threats of arrest brandished by the Russian justice.
Since the worst enemy of Vladimir Putin announced his intention to return on Wednesday, the Russian Prison Service (FSIN) has warned and assured that they will be "obliged" to arrest for violating the conditions of a prison sentence suspended sentence received in 2014.
Alexeï Navalny, 44, swept aside these maneuvers aimed, according to him, to "scare him", but at the end of the day, we learned that some of his supporters had been arrested.
3-Biden promises series of executive orders from Wednesday, Washington on alert
Joe Biden has pledged to sign a series of executive orders on day one in his presidency as law enforcement rallies across the United States for Wednesday's transition.
The passage of these first measures by decree will prevent the new head of state from going through Congress and in particular the Senate, which could have to devote itself to the procedure for the impeachment of Donald Trump.
Climate change, pandemic, economic crisis, racial and social injustices in the United States "are all crises which require urgent action", declared its future chief of staff, Ron Klain.
4-Earthquake in Indonesia: torrential rains complicate research
Torrential rains complicate the search for survivors of the earthquake that left at least 73 dead and thousands homeless on the Indonesian island of Celebes.
Cranes and mechanical shovels were deployed in the ruins of devastated buildings in Mamuju, the city worst affected by the magnitude 6.2 earthquake on Friday morning.
It caused panic among the inhabitants of the west of the island, already devastated in 2018 by a very strong earthquake followed by a devastating tsumani which left 4,300 dead.
It is not known how many bodies are still under the rubble, or if any survivors are still trapped there.
5-Experts assure the hand worlds
They weren't leaving favorites.
And yet the Experts seem to have put themselves in working order for these worlds.
The France team indeed delivered a great match on Thursday evening for their entry into the Egyptian World Cup and won (28-24) against Norway, vice-world champion in title, then Austria. this weekend (35-28).
They will play this week against Switzerland.
Enough to give
this group
a big
boost
of confidence for the rest of the competition, to follow with 20 Minutes.
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