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11:14. The Paris Bourse is retreating under the influence of weak Chinese growth. The Paris Bourse fell 0.15% shortly after opening on Monday, affected by the lowest level in more than 40 years of Chinese growth, at the start of a busy week, between ECB and Joe Biden’s inauguration in the USA.
11h04. “Mauricette is fine”: faced with fake news, the authorities reassure the health of the first vaccinated in France. Unfounded rumors about the death of the septuagenarian circulate on social networks. “Pitiful”, denounces in particular the mayor of Sevran. Our topic to read here.
10:42 am. “People cancel in cascade”, worries the president of the Martinique Tourism Committee. ” We have very worried visitors, who simply prefer to cancel, ”said this Monday on France Info François Baltus-Languedoc, the president of the Martinique Tourism Committee, while Martinique and Guadeloupe hardened their entry conditions on Monday. on their territory. In addition to a negative PCR test, the two islands impose a week of isolation for travelers, regardless of origin, including therefore for those who come from metropolitan France.
10h30. Michelin will reveal its record, despite the Covid. As if nothing had happened … Despite the closure for several months of restaurants, the Michelin guide, ignoring the critics against it, will unveil this Monday its record in France, which maintains the macaroons of all three stars. “It’s an important decision to support the profession despite the context and perhaps because of the context itself. It was necessary to maintain this announcement, ”says guide director Gwendal Poullennec.
10h20. LThe delay in delivery from Pfizer / BioNTech will be made up at the end of the quarter, says Panier-Runnacher. The delay in delivery of anti-Covid vaccines from Pfizer / BioNTech will be caught up “at the end of the 1st quarter”, assures the Minister for Industry Agnès Panier-Runnacher on Monday, who however said she was “vigilant”. “The schedule calls for a drop in delivery of 140,000 doses this week and, starting next week, we will have 520,000 weekly deliveries,” as originally planned, she told CNews.
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10h12. Covid-19 crisis: “The State must help restaurants go digital”. Olivier Gergaud, economist specializing in the catering market, director of the Food, Wine and Hospitality center of excellence. Our topic to read here.
9h56. Lhe UK is expanding its vaccination campaign. The United Kingdom is extending its vaccination campaign against the coronavirus on Monday to over 70s, when the quarantine imposed on all arrivals to avoid the importation of new variants comes into force. Himself struck by a variant of the virus up to 70% more contagious according to health authorities, the United Kingdom deplores the heaviest toll in Europe with more than 89,000 deaths.
9:42 am. “This logistical organization is functioning, it is operational, it continues to gain momentum,” said the Minister of Health on BFMTV.
9:39 a.m. “We will have largely reached the million French people vaccinated by the end of the month,” says Olivier Véran.
9h37. British companies call for a Eurostar bailout. British business executives are calling on the government to participate in a rescue of Eurostar, the cross-Channel railway company undermined by the border closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic, media reported. The London First lobby group said Eurostar needed “swift action to safeguard its future” in a letter to UK Finance Minister Rishi Sunak, which Bloomberg News was able to consult. This letter was signed by 25 leaders and academics.
9h29. 26 positive cases at the Plessis-Belleville school: four classes closed and tests as of Monday morning. The Academy finally announces that two additional classes – four in total – will be closed this Monday, at Plessis-Belleville, where there are 26 people positive for Covid-19. At least three other schools in the Oise have recorded positive cases. To read here.
9:17. Valérie Précesse announces the launch of a listening platform for students.
9:15 am. Valérie Pécresse denounces the hiccups of the vaccination campaign. “It’s a mess… In Ile-de-France, vaccination centers will only have hundreds of doses instead of the thousands which were planned,” said the president of the Ile-de-France regional council on BFMTV.
9h08. In Australia, tennis stars will not benefit from “any preferential treatment”. Dozens of tennis stars placed in strict quarantine in hotels before the opening of the Australian Open will not benefit from “any preferential treatment” to train, Australian health authorities said on Monday. Forced to bang balls against the walls of their rooms, players have called for a relaxation of isolation measures to be ready to play the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, which is due to start on February 8.
This weekend, passengers tested positive for Covid-19 on three of the 17 flights that carried the players and their entourage. The 72 players who were on board, a little more than a quarter of the 256 engaged, will not have the right to train before the end of the fortnight intended to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
8:40 am. “There is an emergency, but we have to live with a principle of reality: vaccination depends on the production of vaccines”, explains Alain Fischer.
8:30 am. “It is legitimate to ask questions, but we should be happy about it. In one year, several vaccines have been developed, a unique event in the history of biology and medicine ”, declares Alain Fischer, the government’s Mister Vaccine on RTL.
8h26. LThe Japanese Prime Minister, in decline, tries to regain his footing. The Japanese Prime Minister pledges this Monday to tackle head-on the worrying increase in Covid-19 cases in his country and to restore a normal situation “as soon as possible”, while his management of the crisis is strongly critiqued. Yoshihide Suga, who was speaking at the reopening of the parliamentary session, has seen his popularity plummet since taking office last September. “I will make sure to restore a normal situation as soon as possible” in order to “protect the lives and health of the population”, he promises before Parliament.
8h09. Sanofi wants to cut 400 research and development positions. A decision revealed by France Inter that the CGT considers “unacceptable”, especially since the company is late in the race for the vaccine against Covid-19.
7h54. 6 pm curfew: supermarkets open earlier in the morning. Many brands have announced the opening of their stores at 7 a.m. or 7:30 a.m. to allow customers to do their shopping before going to work. Our topic to read here.
7h35. Australia is unlikely to reopen its borders in 2021. Australia should not reopen its borders to foreign travelers in 2021, despite the vaccination campaigns that will progress around the world, said a senior Australian health official on Monday.
Secretary in the Department of Health, Brendan Murphy is a key government advisor. He ruled that in 2021 we should not hope for the return of fluid traffic at the borders. “I think we will still have significant border restrictions for most of the year,” he told ABC. “Even though a large part of the population is vaccinated, we don’t know if this will prevent transmission of the virus. “And it is likely that the quarantine measures will remain for some time. “
7h18. Despite the Covid, China is showing positive growth in 2020. Positive GDP but at the lowest for more than 40 years: China posted 2.3% growth last year despite the Covid-19 pandemic, while most major economies remain in recession.
The first country affected by the epidemic, China experienced a historic decline in its growth in the first quarter of 2020 (-6.8%), after unprecedented containment measures that weighed on activity. The gradual improvement in sanitary conditions from the spring, however, allowed the gross domestic product (GDP) to rebound. It was up 6.5% over one year in the last quarter, its pre-pandemic level, said Monday the National Bureau of Statistics (BNS).
6h58. Tokyo Olympics: towards a drastic reduction in the number of athletes at the opening ceremony. The number of athletes at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics scheduled for this summer should be reduced because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the organizers said on Monday, a Japanese newspaper citing several thousand fewer participants.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) expects that number to nearly halve for the opening ceremony scheduled for July 23, according to the Yomiuri Shimbun daily. About 6,000 athletes are expected to participate in the ceremony, the newspaper says, while more than 11,000 athletes from around the world are expected to compete in Tokyo.
6:45 am. Guadeloupe imposes compulsory isolation of 7 days for travelers. All travelers arriving in Guadeloupe, with the exception of those coming from Martinique, will have to commit themselves “on honor” from this Monday to respecting a seven-day isolation, announces the prefecture in a press release.
“This is to avoid the introduction of the English variant by a traveler who would carry the virus but would not have been tested positively before departure,” explains the prefecture.
Travelers arriving in Guadeloupe, who must already present a negative PCR test, will be “subjected to an isolation of the same nature as -cases contacts-” (seven days) and will have to perform a new test seven days after their arrival on the territory, specifies the press release.
Martinique also announced this weekend a tightening of entry conditions on its territory, from this Monday.
6:40 am. Vaccination of people over 75 against Covid-19, let’s go! The general public vaccination campaign begins this Monday, with already traffic jams in vaccination centers. Here’s what you need to know to register.
Covid-19: “4 million French people” could be “vaccinated at the end of February”, says Véran
6.30am. 141 new deaths in France. There have been 141 deaths from the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours in hospital. A total of 70,283 people have died since the start of the epidemic.
6:25 am. Contamination on the rise in France. Santé Publique France has counted 16,642 new positive tests in the last 24 hours, against 15,944 cases seven days ago.
6:20 am. 2,766 people in intensive care in France. 25,235 patients are currently hospitalized following an infection, including 2,766 in intensive care units, against 24,526 hospitalized patients including 2,620 severe cases seven days ago.
6:15 am. Curfew at 6 pm: certificates, childcare, shopping… our answers to your questions. The government has rolled out the 6 p.m. curfew across the country. School, transport, work, shopping… Here is everything you need to know in practice.
Curfew at 6 p.m.: in Paris, the police control
6:10 am. Good morning all. Welcome to this live dedicated to monitoring the news of the Covid-19 pandemic this Monday, January 18, 2021.
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