Towards a green light for the vaccination of 5-11 year olds, a complaint filed after the 27 drowned in Calais, the French left dreams of Chile … The news of this Monday
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The HAS approves the vaccination of young children. The decision was expected, she was not surprised. The High Authority for Health (HAS) spoke out on Monday in favor of vaccinating 5-11 year olds against Covid-19, provided this is done “Without obligation and without this being a condition for obtaining a health pass”. It is in line with the opinion of the National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE), which on Friday authorized the bite of this same age group. All that is missing is the green light from the Vaccine Strategy Orientation Council, which must decide in the middle of the week, before the government’s final decision. The subject always divided among parents.
The unions opposed to the “gas factory” of the sanitary pass in business. This Saturday, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, mentioned the idea of making the health step compulsory in all companies. An idea deemed absurd by the social partners, received Monday by the Minister of Labor, Élisabeth Borne. The employers are wondering about the implementation of such a measure while the unions categorically reject it. In Germany, Italy or the United States, this kind of obligation already exists.
Chile returns to the left, the French left dreams of Chile. In the night from Sunday to Monday, the Chileans discovered the identity of their new president: Gabriel Boric, representative of the left and former student leader. While his supporters celebrated his victory in the streets of Santiago, from France, the French left also welcomed this success. From Fabien Roussel to Jean-Luc Mélenchon via Anne Hidalgo or Arnaud Montebourg, all the candidates declared for the presidential election next spring and have gone from their Tweet or small declaration.
Castaways of Calais: a complaint lodged against the French and British authorities. The association for aid to exiles Utopia 56 announced on Monday that it had lodged a complaint for “manslaughter” and “failure to provide assistance” against the maritime prefect of the Channel, Philippe Dutrieux, and two French and British relief officials after the shipwreck that cost the lives of 27 migrants at the end of November. She accuses them of having ignored the distress calls from migrants and hopes that this complaint will help shed light on the circumstances of the tragedy. The maritime prefecture of the Manche had partly ruled out at the beginning of December that a call from migrants could not have been dealt with by the sea rescue services.
Natural disaster: at least 375 dead in the Philippines. After the passage of Typhoon Rai on the night of Thursday to Friday, the Philippine archipelago counts its dead. According to a provisional report announced on Monday by the national police, at least 375 people died as a result of the storm and 56 are missing. More than 500 injured were also counted and nearly 380,000 people fled their homes and coastal areas, ravaged after the cyclone. Our article.
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Peng Shuai: The Pretty Christmas Tales of the Chinese Communist Party. Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, cut off from the world for almost two months for accusing one of the Communist Party’s most powerful men of rape, reappeared in public at a cross-country ski competition in Shanghai on Sunday. . O surprise, she took the opportunity to reconsider her accusations with a Singaporean newspaper… banned in China. Make a detained person appear in public to make him repeat the message wanted by the authorities and use a friendly foreign media as relay: a great classic of the Chinese authorities. Our ticket.
Malta continues its anti-migrant crusade. The island again refused this weekend to allow a rescue boat from the NGO Sea-Eye to disembark with 223 survivors on board. Between agreement with Libya, anti-Covid measures and indifference to distress calls, all means are good to keep the ports closed. Our article.
To face the Covid, the NBA forced to recruit. Of the 450 players in the largest basketball league in the world, 76 are now banned from walking on the floors because of the pandemic. All have tested positive or are in contact with a loved one, teammate or opponent. Faced with this massacre and to keep its schedule more than tight, the NBA has decided to use the teams to replace additional substitutes. Never seen. Our article.