Vaccination pass: following three agitated days, the deputies validate the bill
After three days of tumultuous debates, fueled by controversial remarks by Emmanuel Macron, ready to “piss off” the unvaccinated, the National Assembly adopted on Thursday morning at first reading the bill transforming the health pass into a pass vaccine. Announced in mid-December by the executive in the face of the rampant Covid-19 epidemic, the text was approved at 5:25 am by 214 votes in favor, those of the majority and part of the LR and the PS. They were 93 deputies to vote once morest, including the left of the left, the RN, and 3 LREM dissidents. Twenty-seven abstained.
The bill must now be considered by the right-wing Senate early next week, for an entry into force that the government wanted on January 15 but which should be postponed by a few days. Those over 12 will then need to be able to prove their vaccination status to access leisure activities, restaurants and bars, fairs or interregional public transport. A negative test will no longer suffice, except for access to health establishments and services.
Among their retouching amendments, the deputies postponed from 12 to 16 years the need for a vaccination pass for school trips and peri and extracurricular activities.
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Véran: 5% of hospitalized patients have false passes
The Minister of Health Olivier Véran indicated in the night from Wednesday to Thursday before the National Assembly that “5% of hospitalized patients” had false health passes and are not vaccinated. “The false pass kills, it is reality,” he told LFI deputies who rejected a strengthening of sanctions in the event of fraud, as part of the examination of the bill establishing the vaccine pass.
“The measures of the law seem balanced to us,” insisted the minister. The possession of a false pass must now be punished by five years’ imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros. Presenting a pass belonging to another person or transmitting a pass to others for the purpose of its fraudulent use will be punished by a fixed fine of 1000 euros, once morest 135 euros today.
The standoff between Novak Djokovic and Australia continues
Considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time, Novak Djokovic is at the heart of a new storm following the cancellation of his visa Thursday by the Australian authorities. The world No.1, who has never communicated regarding his vaccination status, arrived in Melbourne on Wednesday following obtaining a controversial medical exemption to participate in the Australian Open (January 17-30). But the Serbian player was not allowed to enter Australia while checking. His visa was eventually canceled and he now faces deportation.
Novak Djokovic has finally filed a lawsuit once morest the decision of the Australian authorities to cancel his visa and to expel him from the country, announced Thursday of the judicial officials. A Melbourne judge, Anthony Kelly, will examine this morning the request of the Serbian, detained by immigration services in Melbourne since arriving in the country on Wednesday evening with the intention of participating in the Australian Open.
North Korea says test firing of hypersonic missile
North Korea carried out a hypersonic missile test fire, the official North Korean agency KCNA reported Thursday, the first such test by Pyongyang this year. The missile was fired on Wednesday and carried a “hypersonic warhead” which “accurately hit a target 700 km away,” according to KCNA. The launch made it possible to “reconfirm the flight control and stability of the missile in active flight phase and to assess the performance of the new lateral movement technique applied to the detached hypersonic warhead,” KCNA said.
The test also verified the “fuel bulb system in winter weather conditions,” the agency added. This is the second time North Korea has reported firing a hypersonic missile, a sophisticated weapon that attests to advances by the North Korean defense industry. This type of missile is faster and more maneuverable than a standard missile, making it more difficult for defense systems to intercept, on which the United States spends billions of dollars. KCNA did not specify the speed of the fired projectile and neighboring countries did not release an estimate. Hypersonic missiles typically reach Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound.
Moscow and its allies send “peacekeeping force” to riots in Kazakhstan
Moscow and its allies of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) announced on Thursday the dispatch of a “collective peacekeeping force” to Kazakhstan, as requested by this ex-Soviet republic shaken by riots. CSTO Chairman Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pachinian told Facebook that the alliance had decided to send “a collective peacekeeping force” for “a limited period of time in order to stabilize and normalize the situation in this country “, which was provoked by” outside interference “. This organization brings together several former Soviet republics around Russia, including Belarus and Uzbekistan.
The President of Kazakhstan declared a state of emergency on Wednesday evening and asked for help from the CSTO in the face of the “terrorist threat” of the riots, which saw crowds storming government buildings in that country. Central Asia rich in natural resources. According to the Kazakh Interior Ministry quoted by local media, at least eight members of the security forces were killed and 317 injured. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, faced with demonstrations that started Sunday in the West following a rise in the price of gas, then spread and turned into a riot on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday in Almaty, the The country’s economic capital and largest city, says “terrorist gangs” “trained abroad” are leading the protests.
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“Groups of criminal elements are beating our soldiers, humiliating them, dragging them naked in the streets, attacking women, looting shops,” he said in a televised address on Wednesday. After a night of unrest that saw the arrest of more than 200 people, thousands of protesters stormed the Almaty administration headquarters on Wednesday followingnoon, appearing to take control. Police fired stun grenades and tear gas, but might not prevent them from entering, according to AFP journalists.
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