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By Paolo Cappelli
13 January 2021 Vice President Pence does not give in to the pressure of the Democrats, ready to activate the impeachment procedure against Trump just a week after the end of his mandate.
It is a path that many Republicans also look to with interest, in order to free the party from a cumbersome figure foreign to its history.
In Germany, Health Minister Jens Spahn warns the Germans: we will have to minimize social contacts for another 2 or 3 months.
Die Presse
Mutation alarms Europe
Angela Merkel sees hard times until just before Easter because a more contagious variant of the virus has crossed the borders and attacks Germany.
But it also crossed the Austrian borders.
In Berlin, an invisible fence surrounds the capital.
The city Senate yesterday approved a ban for residents to travel beyond the 15 km radius.
The Guardian
Patients relocated to hotels to free up beds for covid
care British hospital managers intend to start
discharging
patients early on a never-before-seen scale as an emergency measure to create "extra hospitalization capacity" and stop the collapse of parts of the NHS, authoritative sources said.
Documents seen by the Guardian also revealed that the National Health System (NHS) is asking nursing homes to begin accepting covid patients directly from hospitals and without a recent negative test, as long as they have been in solitary confinement for 14 days and have not shown new symptoms.
In this way, it is hoped to free up 5,000 hospital beds.
TAZ
The curve has changed
The new variant of the virus is particularly contagious: from Ireland to Germany the number of infected people soars and makes the contrast measures adopted in the past insufficient.
Concerns also grow exponentially with the contagion curve, because no one can say how widespread this variant of the virus is in Germany today.
This also reopens the debate on the compulsory vaccination at least for some professional categories.
CSU leader Markus Soder wants for example the vaccination requirement for nurses.
Die Welt
Bavaria prescribes the obligation of FFP2 masks on local transport and in retail shops.
But experts warn: things will not improve much, quite the contrary.
They could also cause people to make them worse with less prudent behavior, because they feel more protected.
Another 1060 deaths from covid-19 in 24 hours in Germany.
The decline in incidence observed during the holidays and the start of the year does not continue.
TagesSpiegel
Merkel
Sounds Alarm Over Virus Mutation
The state government of Baden-Württemberg has reported the first case of the B.1.351 corona mutation from South Africa recorded in Germany.
This is a family that returned to the Zollernalb district from South Africa on 13 December.
Federal Chancellor defends Spahn's vaccination plan.
Minister of Justice Christine Lambrecht excludes the requirement of vaccination.
SZ
Merkel talks about extension of lockdown
The Federal Chancellor mentions the risks posed by the mutations of the virus and alludes for the first time to prolonged restrictions until Easter.
Rain of criticism from entrepreneurs and traders about the lack of government strategy and the threat of a wave of bankruptcies.
The new year began as the old one had ended, with controversy over the restrictions to be adopted against the virus, controversies that also cause divisions within the government.
But Germany has to idle for a few weeks, because this saves lives and offers the country a way out of the crisis.
Le Figaro
Covid-19: France fears a new confinement
With the arrival of the English variant and a number of cases
rising
again, experts fear a flare-up of the epidemic.
New restrictions seem inevitable.
House arrest
Here we go again, we are about to close.
At 6pm every day?
The weekend?
The countdown has already started.
The French are preparing for new house arrest, including the hour of air.
The virus imposes them with its curves.
But this time we have a weapon: the vaccine.
The slowness that characterizes the vaccination campaign in France is intolerable.
Confinement is humanity's defeat against the mysteries of nature, mass vaccination shows society's ability to dominate them.
This should be the victory of politics.
Until yesterday, more than 140 thousand people vaccinated in France (for a comparison they are the same people, 140 thousand, vaccinated in 24 hours in Great Britain. In total, in Italy, there are 791 thousand).
The I
Vaccination campaign in the UK misses the mark
Updated data shows that the government is unable to keep the pace necessary to vaccinate all categories most at risk by mid-February.
In the last 24 hours 145 thousand people vaccinated with the first dose, bringing the total to 2.4 million but to achieve the goal, 350 thousand should be vaccinated a day
This week, according to the numbers and the contagion curve, the deaths from covid-19 in the United Kingdom they will pass the dramatic threshold of 100 thousand.
The Sun
We can do it.
Campaign by the popular tabloid to recruit 50,000 volunteers to administer vaccinations.
In the photo Jeremy Clarkson, famous TV host of Top Gear and Grand Tour, engaged in recruiting.
So far 35,000 have responded.
The Times
Large-scale retail giants crash in an attempt to slow the virus' growth.
John Lewis suspends the online ordering service and moves on to pickup in the warehouse: too risky.
Other supermarket chains no longer allow unmasked consumers to enter.
Le Monde
Why is the pandemic accelerating China's rise even though it all started in Wuhan?
Beijing has seen its economy withstand the health crisis better than others.
Overtaking in 2028: China's GDP will overtake the US.
Reportage from the heart of a market, the Chinese one, with entrepreneurs who adapt to everything, even the epidemic.
Daily News
The 25th Hour
Democrats give Pence the ultimatum: call for the 25th amendment now to dislodge Trump from the White House or we will activate impeachment again.
NYT
Pence's refusal paves the way for impeachment.
Five Republicans in the House announce they will vote in favor of impeaching the president.
"There has never been a greater betrayal," says Liz Cheney.
In Congress, Senator Mitch McConnell is also said privately to advocate impeachment as the most appropriate tool for ridding the Republican Party of Donald Trump.
The Pentagon prepares armed National Guard men for Joe Biden's swearing-in day.
YouTube has suspended President Trump's channel: it will not be able to upload new content for at least seven days.
USAToday
The impeachment blossoms amid fears of new violence, not only in Washington.
The threat of right-wing extremists in 50 states.
Trump tries to defend his political legacy with a rally in Texas.
"It has to pay a price": the push to punish Trump increases, among the possible scenarios that of a fast track for the impeachment vote.
NYT
Thomas L. Friedman: Trump is blowing up the Republican Party, God bless him.
First, because it could effectively end the stalemate in Congress and allow us to do great things about infrastructure, education, and health care that would help ALL Americans, not least those in the Trump camp, who are there precisely because they feel ignored, humiliated.
and left behind.
Second, if principled Republicans parted ways with the Trump cult, the pro-Trump GOP would have a hard time winning a national election anytime soon.
And given what we have just seen, the power of these Trumpians cannot be trusted at all.
WSJ
Rick Santorum, former senator and candidate in the 2012 and 2016 Republican primaries: Mike Pence arrives for America.
We were right to trust him because we doubted Trump.
Pence was true to his oath to defend the Constitution and by resisting the man who brought him to the vice presidency he rendered his greatest service to the conservatives, this administration and the country.
Washington Post
Editorial
Republicans want reconciliation.
Here's what they need to do first.
"We must work together to lower the temperature and unite the country," said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (California).
"We must unite and leave this anger and division behind us," said Senator Ted Cruz (Tex.).
What all these GOP leaders - and many others calling for reconciliation - have in common is that they voted against President-elect Joe Biden's count of votes, even after a mob stormed the government seat of the country. nation on behalf of President Trump.
If Republicans want to talk about reconciliation, there is a minimum price: a direct and unequivocal recognition that the election was not rigged and that Biden won the vote fairly and fairly.
From the editorial staff
Proceso Digital
Encouraged by Biden's arrival, social networks promote a caravan of migrants to the United States
For next January 15, a new caravan of Central American immigrants has been called to the United States.
The initiative was promoted by social networks in the first days of the year with departure from Honduras.
The alleged promoters of the caravan "hope" to reach North America on January 20, when the new US President Biden is already installed in the White House.
The government of Guatemala urgently convened a meeting last week with the country's Immigration Institute and international institutions to organize a plan of "containment, control, treatment and humanitarian assistance" for the management of the massive caravan.
MK.ru
Russia: crackdown on mass media and public demonstrations
The Russian authorities are preparing for elections to the Duma, set for next September, as if it were a foreign invasion.
In the last weeks of 2020, regulations were passed that can turn any peaceful social activity into violation of the law with the risk of being subject to a fine, restriction of civil rights, account blackout, or can even lead to a prison sentence.
Lonely pickets will be punishable when people take turns, passing the same billboard from hand to hand, but staying in the same place one at a time.
A squeeze also concerns non-profit organizations, which, if established less than a year earlier, will not be able to receive donations from abroad and from international organizations.
Russians also need to be prepared for YouTUbe, Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram to slow down or shut down on Russian territory.