8 p.m .: 63,700 anti-health pass protesters this Saturday, including 7,200 in Paris, according to the Interior
According to figures from the Ministry of the Interior, 63,700 people marched this Saturday in the streets of several cities in France against the health pass. They were 7,200 pounding the pavement in Paris.
A general mobilization again in decline: last Saturday, they were 80,000 to demonstrate.
7 p.m .: Anti-health pass mobilization on the decline in many cities
In Marseille, some 800 demonstrators, according to the prefecture, marched through the city center from the Old Port. This is the lowest participation for these demonstrations against the health pass in the Marseille city since the first episode of this movement, on July 17. A week ago, there were still 1,500 demonstrators, up from 6,000 in August.
Mobilization was also down in Nantes (1,100) and Rennes (650). In Bordeaux, more than a thousand people marched, according to the police – against nearly 3,000 at the beginning of the month – behind a giant banner “Liberty, truth, sovereignty”. According to figures communicated by the prefectures, 2,000 people demonstrated in Montpellier, 1,200 in Strasbourg, a thousand in Lyon, 950 in Metz, 900 in Lille (against 2,100 last week) and 650 in Nancy. In Reims, the prefecture counted 650 demonstrators. According to France Blue, the singer Francis Lalanne took the head of the procession.
6:53 p.m.: In Ireland, end of the compulsory quarantine for tourists
Ireland ended the mandatory two-week quarantine imposed since March on visitors entering the country on Saturday. Irish Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said in a statement “the withdrawal, as of today, of all remaining countries on the official list of states” whose nationals were subject to a 14-day quarantine at hotel upon arrival in Ireland. In addition to nationals of states designated by the Irish government, travelers who could not show a negative PCR test for Covid-19 were also subject to quarantine.
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6:06 p.m .: Protesters gather in front of the home of the mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi
In Nice, several hundred people gathered in front of the home of the mayor of the city, Christian Estrosi, on the sidelines of the anti-health pass demonstration, report our colleagues from Nice morning. The demonstrators chanted in particular “Estro collabo” and “Estro toutou de Macron”. The police intervened and used tear gas to stop individuals who wanted to enter the residence of the city councilor. The demonstration broke up around 5 p.m.
The mayor of Nice reacted on Twitter, deploring an “unspeakable” act. This “illustrates the savagery of those who claim to defend a just cause,” he writes.
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5.45 p.m.: In Dijon, anti-passes decide to empty the ATM of a bank
Shortly before starting their parade in the streets of Dijon (Côte-d’Or) this Saturday, some opponents of the health pass decided around 2 p.m. to empty the cash machine of a bank, reports The Public Good. They hoped that there would be no more tickets.
5.35 p.m.: In Epinal, traders face anti-pass
At 2 p.m., in front of the Vosges prefecture in Epinal, a large delegation of traders and elected officials went to meet the anti-health pass protesters, reports Vosges Morning. They were provided with roses and explained their exasperation. The climate was slightly tense, before subsiding. At around 2.45 p.m., the demonstrators were still in front of the prefecture, surrounded by many police officers.
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13h55: You can deactivate the QR code of your pass if it has been spoofed
Since Friday, it is now possible to deactivate the QR code of your health pass if it has been spoofed. To do this, you must inform the Tous Anti-Covid application by telephone on 0800 08 71 48, or by email at [email protected].
Your pass will then be “deactivated and a new vaccination certificate or a test certificate will be generated,” she said on Twitter. More information in our article.
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13:33: In Italy, compulsory return to the office in the public administration
The 3.2 million employees of the Italian public administrations will all have to return to the office from October 15, warned their minister on Saturday, commenting on an official decree published the day before.
The Italian government recently decided to generalize from October 15 the obligation in the workplace of the health pass which will be required in both the public and private sectors. Objective of this measure: to increase the vaccination rate as much as possible before the onset of the cold, which risks promoting a resurgence of contagions.
12.51 p.m.: The Scientific Council recommends maintaining free tests for children
While the comfort tests will become chargeable from October 15, the Scientific Council wants these Covid-19 screening devices to remain free for those under 16. In an opinion written in mid-September and made public on Friday, the institution believes that it is important for children and adolescents to be tested easily, since most of them (those under 12) cannot still not get vaccinated.
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11:44 am: India to export 8 million vaccines in October
India will export eight million doses of the vaccine by the end of October, after lifting its ban on sending doses abroad. Most of the vaccines will go to nations in the Asia-Pacific region, where those countries seek to counter China’s growing influence.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the pledge at a summit with leaders of the United States, Japan and Australia – “the quadrangle” of the Pacific region – in Washington on Friday.
10h55: Dany Boon launches his film for “Netflikche” on confinement
Walkabout with the “Ch’tis” and “heroes” of confinement in the spotlight: Dany Boon launched on Friday, in Vitry-en-Artois, “8 rue de l’hhuman”, a comedy on this period revealing our through as of Our Potential for Generosity, which releases October 20 on Netflix.
A choral film, “8 rue de l’Humité”, features the inhabitants of a Parisian building caught in the throes of the first confinement, which exacerbates their neuroses but also stimulates their creativity and, ultimately, their humanity. The plot navigates between a disheveled biologist obsessed with the quest for a vaccine (Yvan Attal), a hypochondriac always armed with a thermometer (Dany Boon), children, sponges of their parents’ anguish, or even a young couple ( Tom Leeb and Alison Wheeler) no longer living except through social networks.
10:03 am: 60 million Americans cleared for 3rd dose of vaccine
Some 60 million Americans are now eligible to receive a third dose of Pfizer’s anti-Covid vaccine six months after their second injection, said Joe Biden on Friday, after a regulatory marathon that highlighted the divisions of the scientific community on the matter.
The American health authorities finally recommended this booster dose for three categories of the population: people aged 65 and over, those between 18 and 64 years old with risk factors for developing a severe form of the disease (diabetes, obesity …), as well as those who are very exposed to the coronavirus in the context of their work or their place of life.
9.41am: Macron and Tedros in Lyon this Monday for the WHO Global Training Center
Emmanuel Macron and the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will set up in Lyon on Monday the global training center of this powerful UN agency, on the front line in the face of the pandemic.
Equipped with cutting-edge educational technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality and a world-class health emergency simulation center, the Académie de Lyon aims to train millions of health workers around the world. This structure, launched in 2019 and which began its online courses in the spring, is intended to be “the reference training structure in public health”, Emmanuel Macron told WHO in May, specifying that the France was going to invest more than 120 million euros in it.
8:54 am: Reopening of the terraces in Cuba
Thursday evening and almost by surprise, the Cuban authorities announced the “gradual” reopening, the next day, of restaurants and bars in much of the country, as well as legal and notarial services, all closed since January.
This reopening is justified by the “successful vaccination process”, underlined the Minister of Internal Trade, Betsy Diaz, but also the need for “economic recovery”, added the governor of Havana, Reynaldo Garcia Zapata.
It is a first step before Cuba reopens its doors to foreign tourists, from November 15.
7:25 am: Antibody boost with a 3rd Pfizer dose, after two doses of Coronavac
A third injection of the German-American Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine after two injections of the Chinese Coronavac vaccine increases the antibody level by 20, according to preliminary results from a study carried out in Uruguay where 24% of the population had access to this regimen vaccine.
6:50 a.m .: New anti-health pass demonstrations planned for this Saturday
Opponents of the health pass are mobilizing today for an 11th consecutive Saturday. Four processions are notably planned in Paris.
Last Saturday, only 80,000 demonstrators marched, including 6,100 in Paris, the lowest mobilization since the start of the movement on July 17.
6:48 am: A level of death “never reached” in Guyana
“Guyana had never recorded so many deaths and admissions in intensive care” since the start of the epidemic, alerted the epidemiological bulletin of Public Health France on Friday. During the last seven days, “21 Guyanese have succumbed to Covid-19, a figure never reached” indicated the ARS, a level of death and hospitalization that exceeds that experienced at the peak of the first wave.
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6:47 am: Hospital figures still falling
The number of Covid-19 patients hospitalized in France continued to decline on Friday. According to the daily update of the health agency Public Health France, the number of hospitalized patients stood at 8,107, against nearly 9,300 a week earlier and 11,000 at the beginning of September.
Among these patients, 1,586 were hospitalized in intensive care units, reserved for the most serious cases, against 1,950 a week earlier and nearly 2,300 at the beginning of September.
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