the Minister of Health this Saturday in Nice, where the situation is “worrying”

7:21 am: 90-year-old American walks 10 km in snow to get vaccinated

A nonagenarian American braved the cold, walking ten kilometers in the snow to be vaccinated in Seattle. Fran Goldman, 90, could not find an appointment to receive her first dose of the vaccine so when a slot was allocated to her last Sunday, it was out of the question that bad weather would distract her from her goal. Despite the thick layer of snow that had settled over the city, making it impossible to drive by car, she put on her boots, grabbed her trekking poles, and did not hesitate to walk, to go and to back, the 5 kilometers that separated her from the clinic that administered the vaccines. Find this story by clicking on this link.

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7:15 am: “We managed to avoid the re-containment, but it’s very fragile”

In an interview with Sud Ouest, Prime Minister Jean Castex was very cautious: “The incidence rates remain high, the levels of hospitalization high, a large number of patients are in intensive care … The time is not for relaxation. We managed to avoid the reconfinement, but it is very fragile. We must continue to be very disciplined, united, and confident “he confided in front of the readers of the newspaper.

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6:59 am: In Argentina, the minister vaccinated his friends at the ministry

Argentine President Alberto Fernandez on Friday demanded the resignation of the Minister of Health, who offered his friends to be vaccinated at the ministry without making an appointment in a hospital. It was journalist Horacio Verbitsky, 71 – one of the first to investigate the mechanism of “death thefts” during the dictatorship in his book “El Vuelo” published in 1995 – who himself told the radio having been vaccinated at the ministry as instructed by his old friend the minister.

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6:48 am: Olivier Véran in Nice this Saturday, where the situation is “worrying”

In Dunkirk, the incidence rate has now reached 600 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, against a national average over a week of 190. The situation is also “particularly worrying” in the Alpes-Maritimes (incidence close to 600), Olivier Véran has announced that he would travel to Nice on Saturday.

The Minister of Health must in particular mention the subject of the management of the long Covid.

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6:44 am: Macron could decide in a few days to change the restrictions

In France, the epidemic situation is stable but fragile. No additional restrictions have been announced in recent days by the government. The president gives himself “eight to ten days to decide if we tighten or if we can relax the constraints”, he said Friday in front of twenty parliamentarians of the majority during a videoconference, comments reported to AFP but not confirmed by the Elysee.

Generalized confinement at 6 p.m. has been in effect since January 16.

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6:43 am: What will our festivals look like this summer?

Les Eurockéennes, Musilac, les Vieilles Charrues… The Ministry of Culture has announced that the festivals could not exceed 5,000 people seated this summer. The organizers of these major musical events will have to adapt if they wish to maintain their events in 2021. But what will the festivals look like this summer?

> More information in our article.

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