8:34 am: Margaret Keenan, 90, the world’s first patient to receive the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine
The United Kingdom on Tuesday morning began administering the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine to the most vulnerable people, becoming the first Western country to deploy a mass vaccination program against the new coronavirus, British media reported.
Margaret Keenan, 90, hospitalized in Coventry (central England) became the first patient in the world to receive the vaccine developed by the alliance of American and German laboratories, almost a week after the green light given to her deployment in the most bereaved country in Europe with nearly 61,500 dead.
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90-year-old Margaret Keenan is the first to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, administered by Matron May Parsons, as UK’s mass vaccination programme begins https://t.co/3eBGv3RUsU pic.twitter.com/ltWAL8uDmr
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) December 8, 2020
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8:32 am: The ceiling for gift vouchers drops from 171 euros to 342.80 euros
Bercy has decided to raise the tax exemption limit for gift vouchers. Distributed by works councils, these checks, limited to 171 euros per employee, will increase to 342.80 euros this year to support the economy. All the details in our article by clicking on this link.
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8:08 am: “The Christmas and New Years holidays are clearly an opportunity to relaunch the cycle of contaminations”
“We all fear the third wave. The Christmas and New Years holidays are clearly an opportunity to relaunch the cycle of contaminations. The government has given instructions, I am not sure they have been heard,” said the professor Eric Caumes, head of the infectious diseases department at Pitié-Salpêtrière, in Paris, this Tuesday morning on France Inter.
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Éric Caumes: “We all fear the third wave. The Christmas and New Years holidays are clearly an opportunity to relaunch the cycle of contamination. The government has given instructions, I am not sure that they have been heard.” # le79Inter pic.twitter.com/9tm9FEBDGp
– France Inter (@franceinter) December 8, 2020
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7:57 am: “The fact that things are stagnating is explained by the fact that there is always contamination in schools”
“The objective of 5,000 contaminations per day will not be reached (…). The fact that it is stagnating is explained by the fact that there are always contaminations in schools, and afterwards, it is transmitted in families, “said Professor Eric Caumes, head of the infectious diseases department at Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, this Tuesday morning on France Inter.
Asked about the possibility of letting theaters and cinemas close after December 15, the date initially planned for deconfinement, he stressed that he did not think that the epidemic “would restart inside a theater or A movie theater”.
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Éric Caumes: “The objective of 5,000 contaminations / day will not be reached (…). The fact that it is stagnating is explained by the fact that there are always contaminations in schools, and afterwards, it is passes on in families. ” # le79Inter pic.twitter.com/HttlOliquP
– France Inter (@franceinter) December 8, 2020
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7:54 am: Rebound in salaried employment in the third quarter
Private and public salaried employment rebounded 1.6% in the third quarter, with 401,100 net job creations, without however returning to its pre-crisis level, according to the final estimate from INSEE published on Tuesday. This rebound comes after the destruction of 697,100 jobs in the first half of the year. Salaried employment in the third quarter thus remains below its pre-crisis level at the end of 2019. But, underlines INSEE, its level is “comparable” to that of the end of 2018.
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6:53 am: Up to 6,000 additional deaths due to delays in cancer care
The delays in the care of cancer patients during the first wave of Covid-19 “will result in an excess of deaths of 1,000 to 6,000 patients in the years to come”, the Unicancer federation estimated on Tuesday.
> Find all the details in our article by clicking on this link.
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6:39 am: A nighttime curfew in Israel
Israeli authorities announced on Monday that they would impose a nighttime curfew this week due to an increase in cases of infection with the novel coronavirus in recent weeks.
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6:37 am: WHO is opposed to compulsory vaccination
The World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday evening that vaccination against Covid-19 should not be made mandatory, except in specific professional circumstances.
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6:19 am: “A high risk of an epidemic rebound”
France is “still a long way from the goal of going below the threshold of 5,000” contaminations per day, which will be “very difficult” to achieve if current conditions continue, warned the Director General of Health Jérôme Salomon on Monday.
“In recent days, the level of daily contaminations has not fallen” and the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic on the hospital system “remains major”, he stressed, warning against “a high risk of epidemic rebound “.
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What to know this morning
- In the United Kingdom, the vaccination campaign will begin on Tuesday, the first country in the world to have authorized the deployment of the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.
- In France, the goal of falling below the threshold of 5,000 new daily positive cases on December 15 is moving away, which could push the government to review the terms of deconfinement.
- On the closure of ski lifts in ski resorts in France, the Council of State is due to rule on Wednesday.
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6:08 am: 366 new deaths announced Monday
According to the Ministry of Solidarity and Health, as well as Public Health France, 366 deaths linked to Covid-19 have been recorded in France over the last 24 hours.
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6:05 am: Towards a Christmas trap? The milestone of 5,000 daily contaminations by the new coronavirus, set by Emmanuel Macron to lift the confinement on December 15, is proving difficult to reach, putting the government facing a new dilemma a few days before the end of the year holidays.
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