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A few days before the New Year festivities, the French government announced new measures to deal with the Omicron variant. The whole world is facing a wave of Covid-19 contaminations.

7:50 a.m. In New York, private sector employees must now be vaccinated. Nearly 184,000 companies are affected by this new vaccination obligation, which follows that of caregivers, municipal employees and educational staff. Employers must keep a vaccination record of their teams. In the event of the employee's refusal to be vaccinated, he may be dismissed or put into telework automatically.

7:40 a.m. Parliamentary process. The bill aimed at transforming the health pass into a vaccination pass, presented at the end of the afternoon during a dedicated council of ministers, will be examined in committee at the National Assembly on Wednesday.

7:35 a.m. South Korea allows Paxlovid. Pfizer's antiviral pills have been authorized under an emergency process for patients aged 12 and over, weighing more than 40kg, and who have mild to moderate symptoms with underlying illnesses. Paxlovid is expected to "help prevent severe deterioration in patients admitted to residential treatment centers or treated at home", by diversifying treatments for the coronavirus, Medicine Safety Minister Kim Gang-lip said at a meeting. a press briefing.

The application for evaluation of molnupiravir, developed by Merck, is still in progress.

7:20 a.m. Over a thousand false negatives. Yesterday, SydPath testing center in Sydney, Australia, confirmed it had mistakenly texted 400 people who tested positive telling them they were negative. This morning, the clinic revised the number upwards: another 995 people received a message saying they were negative while the results have yet to be determined.

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— Tuggmunkee FullyVaxxed/StillMasked😷🐾🐰🐱🐶🦛🦋🌊 Sat Jun 26 01:40:40 +0000 2021

7:10 a.m. If you are going to Denmark. The obligation to provide a negative Covid test to travel to Danish territory comes into force today.

7 hours. No announcement before tonight. It is at 4 p.m. that the Health Defense Council will meet around Emmanuel Macron, before the post-Christmas Council of Ministers. The President of the Republic will be in Brégançon, by videoconference.

6:50 a.m. First death due to Omicron in Australia. Australia reported its first confirmed death from the new Omicron variant this morning Monday, among the 6 people who died yesterday. The man caught the virus in an aged care facility and died in a hospital in Sydney, authorities said.

6:40 a.m. The Omicron wave lives in Australia but… Australia registers just over 9,400 new cases in 24 hours, not counting the cases of the State of South Australia which has not yet communicated its figures. Most of the new cases have been recorded in the states of New South Wales and Victoria, which are home to more than half of Australia's population. Nevertheless, the situation remains under control. “Although we are seeing an increase in the number of cases, we are not seeing the impact on our hospital system,” said Annastacia Palaszczuk, Premier of Queensland, who reported 784 new cases and four people hospitalized.

6:30 a.m. Peru is already planning a 4th dose. The Andean country, the country most affected by the pandemic in terms of its population, will buy 55 million doses of vaccines against Covid-19 in 2022 to give a fourth injection to medical personnel and vulnerable populations, the government said. The Minister of Health, Hernando Cevallos, also confirmed the acquisition of Pfizer vaccines and the start in January of the vaccination of children aged 5 to 11 years.

6:20 a.m. Words from non-party people. No decision has been announced but already, people are giving up celebrating New Year's Day with great fanfare. Their testimonies.

6:10 a.m. Shortage of tests in the United States. In some cities, the distribution had to be secured by the police, to avoid crowd movements. 500 million self-test kits have been ordered by Washington, which will be distributed free of charge to anyone who requests them from January. The shortage will soon be resolved, assured Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House's main adviser in the fight against the pandemic, yesterday.

6 hours. Hello and welcome to this live. To follow the news of the Covid which will be marked, in France, by probable government announcements after the holding of a Health Defense Council, this is the place to be.

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