HENRI WEBER Former senator and MEP Henri Weber, one of the tutelary figures of May 68 who became part of the socialist party, died at the age of 75 Sunday of the coronavirus, his family announced to AFP. Son of Polish Jews born on June 23, 1944 in Leninabad in the USSR (today Khodjent in … Read more
LR ASKS THE POSTPONEMENT OF THE VOTE OF THE CONONFINEMENT PLAN The deputy (LR) Eric Woerth, president of the finance committee, and the leader of the deputies LR Damien Abad asked Sunday to postpone the vote on the deconfinement plan, presented Tuesday at the Assembly. “What I would like is that we do not vote … Read more
SAINT-PIERRE AND MIQUELON: BEGINNING OF THE CONONFINEMENT MONDAY The 6,000 inhabitants of the archipelago of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon will be able to get out of confinement from Monday but activity will only resume gradually depending on the sectors, announced on Saturday the Minister of Overseas Annick Girardin, in a press release . The two islands … Read more
GOOD HOLIDAYS OFFERED FOR CAREGIVERS To thank the nursing staff, initiatives to offer them vacations are multiplying. Homair Vacances, a player in the camping sector, specializing in mobile home stays, thus offers 10,000 vouchers, worth 250 euros each, valid throughout the summer season in the 130 destinations offered, including 104 in the ‘Hexagon. At the … Read more
1500 CASES IN THE FRENCH ARMY The Ministry of the Armed Forces has 1,500 confirmed cases of coronavirus among its personnel, according to figures provided by the central director of the army health service (SSA). On April 21, the SSA listed “fifteen soldiers in intensive care out of these 1,500 tested positive for covid-19”. Among … Read more
SEB TO PRODUCE LOW COST ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATOR The French group Seb is committed to producing the low-cost artificial respirator MakAir, designed in a few weeks by a group of 250 volunteers to treat the Covid-19 and which is awaiting authorization to start clinical trials. “We have to be ready to be able to produce whenever … Read more
THE HIGH COUNCIL FOR CLIMATE CAUTION The High Council for Climate, an independent body created by President Emmanuel Macron, has prepared a special report on the crisis and its consequences, with 18 recommendations. In its publication Tuesday, the HCC targets the automotive sector, where all aid should be part of a conversion to “clean” vehicles, … Read more
THE HIGH COUNCIL FOR CLIMATE CAUTION The High Council for Climate, an independent body created by President Emmanuel Macron, has prepared a special report on the crisis and its consequences, with 18 recommendations. In its publication Tuesday, the HCC targets the automotive sector, where all aid should be part of a conversion to “clean” vehicles, … Read more
CHLOROQUIN According to a study, noted by the Associated Press, chloroquine would have “no benefit” for the treatment of coronaviurs. Realized thanks to subsidies from the National Institute of Health, it even concludes that there are more deaths among the patients who took the treatment (28%) than the others (11%). If this study “is not … Read more
JEAN-MICHEL BLANQUER “On May 11, we are not going, obviously, to have all the students who will arrive and enter the classroom as if we were resuming things normally”, assures the Minister of Education during his hearing at the National Assembly, evoking a “very gradual return”. “We will bring in from the week of May … Read more