postponed sales until January 20, extended meal vouchers

11:40 am: the Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships scheduled in China canceled

The Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships scheduled in Yanqing (China) from 18 to 28 February 2021 at the headquarters of the Beijing 2022 Winter Games have been canceled due to restrictions imposed by China in the face of the pandemic.

11:37 am: an additional cost of 2.1 billion euros for the Tokyo Olympics

Japanese organizers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics announced on Friday that the event postponed to summer 2021 due to the coronavirus would cost at least 267 billion yen (2.1 billion euros) more than previously estimated.

11:30 am: “Autocofine” a few days before Christmas

Gilles Pialoux, head of the infectious diseases department at Tenon hospital (Paris), gave BFMTV some advice this Friday morning to limit the spread of Covid-19 before the end of the year holidays.

“Autocofine yourself” a few days before Christmas, he suggested. He also suggested taking a “48 hour” test before family reunification, although that doesn’t 100% guarantee that you won’t be infected and contagious on New Year’s Eve.

11:19 am: Joe Biden wants Americans to wear masks for 100 days

President-elect Joe Biden told CNN on Thursday that he intended to ask Americans on the day he took office, January 20, 2021, to wear a face mask for 100 days, to combat the spread of the coronavirus in the nation.

10:50 am: They ask for restaurants to reopen for lunch

Two senators from the North, Valérie Létard and Olivier Henno, in a letter to the government on Wednesday, called for the reopening of the restaurants at noon. A proposal supported by 25 parliamentarians.

They promote a principle of fairness with corporate restaurants open to them.

10:15 am: “All the money needed to purchase vaccines will be available”

On BFMTV, this Friday morning, the Minister of Economy indicated that “all the money necessary for the purchase of vaccines will be available”.

“Health is priceless,” he said. “All the money needed to purchase the vaccines will be available.”

1.5 billion euros have already been set aside in the social security financing bill.

9:58 am: Closure of the ski lifts contested by the Council of State

Faced with the government’s decision to keep the lifts closed until January 20, 2021, five regions (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, South, Occitanie and Grand Est) and several departmental mountain councils have united the forces initiate summary proceedings before the State Council.

The president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Laurent Wauquiez, this Friday morning in Public Senat, asks: “If we ask ourselves two seconds, I summarize: we can go on the metro but not sit on a chairlift … but not on our mountains to ski. Can anyone explain the logic to me? It makes no sense … “

And to add “80% of ski injuries are managed by doctors’ offices. We are a large region, we can be united. The livelihoods of 130,000 people depend on skiing. Mountain people ask to work. Administrative madness. We have to stop. We must reopen with the utmost sanitary rigor “.

9:25 am: A new infectious disease agency will be created

Emmanuel Macron will announce this Friday the creation of a new national research agency on infectious and emerging diseases, to better cope with crises like Covid-19 in the future. It should see the light in January 2021. The goal? Improve your research, understand how these diseases emerge, know how to treat them and be present in the event of a new health crisis. We explain everything in our article.

8:59 am: The € 1,500 Solidarity Fund will end on December 31st

The “universal” Solidarity Fund up to 1,500 euros per month for all sectors will end on December 31, announced Bruno Le Maire on RMC / BFMTV on Friday.

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8:47 am: the validity period of the restaurant tickets extended

The restaurant vouchers valid until February 2021 will be extended “until September 2021”, Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire announced on BFMTV on Friday morning. “This is 700 million euros that can be consumed by the French”.

Bruno Le Maire confirmed that the balances have been postponed to January 20: “It’s a choice made for small businesses”.

8:01 am: sales period postponed to January 20th

The winter sales will begin on January 20th instead of January 6th announced on Friday morning, on Radio Sud, by Alain Griset, delegate minister responsible for Small and Medium Enterprises. “It helps to postpone the sales. The winter sales will start on January 20,” he said. The duration of the sales will be four weeks.

the Confederation of French merchants and artisan merchants of French metropolises in particular considered it “vital” for companies “to be able to sell at” fair price “, without price reduction, during several weeks of winter in order to replenish the cash”, after the administrative closures imposed from 30 October to 27 November.

7:55 am: Pfizer reduces the number of doses of its vaccine

US lab Pfizer downgraded its Covid-19 vaccine distribution program, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The American giant is experiencing problems in its supply chain and would be able to supply only half of the doses envisaged by the end of 2020.

American Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech initially planned to distribute 100 million doses of the vaccine by the end of the year. However, they still plan to dispense more than a billion doses in 2021.

7:53 am: closing schools in Rio?

In Brazil, a scientific committee recommended this week especially in Rio de Janeiro to close all its schools and ban them from staying on the beaches. Brazil recorded more than 700 coronavirus deaths in one day for the first time since mid-November, and on Thursday crossed the threshold of 175,000 deaths, according to official data confirming an acceleration of the pandemic.

7:42 am: vaccinations will begin

The UK passed the 60,000 death mark just as its government announced the start of vaccination next week for nursing home residents and staff. Wednesday became the first country in the world to approve the use of the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech against Covid-19.

7.10am: Quebecese Private Christmas

Quebec Premier François Legault announced Thursday that he was overturning his decision to allow Quebecs to reunite for four days at Christmas, citing the sharp rise in Covid-19 cases in this Canadian province. “When we look at the situation, we are forced to face the facts: it is unrealistic to think that we will be able to reduce the progression of the virus satisfactorily by Christmas,” he said. justified at a press conference.

6:18 am: The situation in the US is out of control

On Thursday, the United States recorded more than 210,000 coronavirus cases in a single day, an all-time high since the start of the pandemic.

The country simultaneously deplored more than 2,900 deaths from Covid-19, one of the worst tolls recorded in the country

6:16 am: Six adults at the table for the end of year celebrations

The government recommends a measure of six adults at the table, not counting children, for the year-end celebrations, to try not to increase the circulation of the virus on this occasion.

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6:15: We need to “be especially vigilant” about vaccination in nursing homes

The first affected by the vaccination will be the residents of nursing homes, which poses many organizational problems, as evidenced by the geriatrician Gaël Durel, head of the national association of coordinating doctors and the medico-social sector (MCOOR) in this article.

6:12 am: Castex asks the French to be vaccinated

Jean Castex on Thursday called on the French to be “as many as possible” to be vaccinated, “an altruistic act”, exposing the strategy of the vaccine against Covid-19, a decisive step that the executive does not want to lose in fighting the epidemic. running into masks and tests.

This vaccination will be free for everyone and will start in January for the elderly in the establishments (one million), in February for people who are frail by age or disease (14 million) and then in the spring for the entire population.

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