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1-Increased controls at the Franco-German border
Germany classified Moselle as a high-risk area on Sunday, one of the French departments most affected by the Covid-19 epidemic.
Consequence: very strict border controls from which Paris is asking for relief.
"It is a classification which implies extremely strict measures of quasi-closing of the borders", lamented Clément Beaune French Secretary of State for European Affairs on France Inter.
And "that we do not want" for the 16,000 border workers of Moselle, he said, specifying that he was in discussions with Berlin to "try to mitigate these measures as much as possible".
In the spring of 2020, during the first wave of the pandemic, the temporary closure by Germany of its border with France had created tensions between the two countries and the populations at the local level.
To learn more about the vaccination campaign in Moselle, it's here.
2-The curfew “works very well” according to Jérôme Salomon
The curfew "works very well", said the director general of health Jérôme Salomon, in an interview with the
Journal du Dimanche,
without excluding "stricter measures" at the national level in the event of a worsening of the Covid epidemic.
The curfew, introduced at 6 pm throughout the metropolis, "responds well to the problem of private gatherings," continued Jérôme Salomon.
As for the local confinement on the weekend - inaugurated on Saturday in the Nice region and around Dunkirk - "we are going to study what (this measure) gives but we know, given the example in Guyana that it works".
On the other hand, some doctors recommend more aeration of populations to get out of the epidemic as we explain to you here.
3-The Climate Convention very disappointed with the results
The Citizen's Climate Convention (CCC), created by Emmanuel Macron to propose measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, curtly noted Sunday the translation by the executive of its proposals.
The “implementation” by the government did not obtain the average in any of the votes organized on the six major themes of measures put forward by the 150 citizens drawn by lot for this exercise of participatory democracy unprecedented in France.
Few of the measurements obtained the average.
The reform of Article 1 of the Constitution to bring in the fight against climate change, on which the President of the Republic proposed a referendum, for example received the score of 6.1.
This convention of 150 citizens drawn by lot for an exercise in participatory democracy unprecedented in France was wanted by Emmanuel Macron to propose measures to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases.
It had emerged at the end of the yellow vests crisis, born of a carbon tax on fuels perceived as unfair.
4-A new vaccine authorized in the United States
The United States urgently authorized Johnson & Johnson's vaccine against Covid-19.
The news was greeted by President Joe Biden who however called not to “lower our guard” in the face of the epidemic.
This single-dose vaccine, which can be stored at refrigerator temperatures, joins those of Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna in the huge vaccination campaign in the United States, where the pandemic has killed more than 500,000.
This vaccine should be approved by the European Medicines Agency in early March, and distributed from late March or early April, said French Minister for Industry Agnès Pannier-Runacher.
5-A candidate of “The Voice” selected with an interpretation of “Chant des partisans”
It is not uncommon to hear
songs
in
The Voice that go
off the beaten track: lyrical or folk tunes, traditional or polyphonic songs… We would not have imagined that a candidate would try his luck by performing
Le Chant des partisans
.
However, it is this hymn of resistance that Luc Laversanne defended during his blind hearing broadcast Saturday on TF1 (and visible here).
Successfully since he convinced Marc Lavoine, one of the show's coaches, to turn around.
He reveals to
20 Minutes
the reasons for this choice there.
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