A hundred shopping centers have started to request the health pass

After bars, restaurants, hospitals and trains, more than 120 large shopping centers and stores in the Paris region and the southern half of France now systematically check the health pass, operations rather well received despite some tensions, and at least one hypermarket in violation. Legal for a week for shopping centers, the government has asked the prefects to impose the health pass for surfaces of more than 20,000 m2 in the departments where the incidence rate exceeds 200 per 100,000 inhabitants over a week. This new stage comes as hospitalizations in France due to Covid-19 have passed the threshold of 10,000, according to figures from health authorities published on Monday. 97 additional deaths were recorded in 24 hours. The situation is critical in the West Indies, where hospitals are overwhelmed. A military ship is transporting more than 100 tons of oxygen from Guyana to Martinique.

After the earthquake in Haiti, relief is busy, a storm threatens

Gutted buildings, remains stuck in the rubble. Two days after the powerful earthquake that struck Haiti, killing more than 1,400 people, rescuers were active on Monday in search of people missing or stranded under the ruins, as a storm approached which threatened to further aggravate the situation. situation. Tropical Depression Grace posed the risk of flooding and landslides in Haiti and neighboring Dominican Republic, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center warned. According to the Haitian Civil Protection on Monday afternoon, 1,419 people died and more than 6,900 injured in the earthquake that shook the southwest of the country on Saturday at 8:29 a.m. local time. More than 37,000 houses were destroyed. In the small seaside town of Port-Salut, as in the rest of the affected regions, residents faced a dilemma: stay outside to protect themselves from aftershocks, or return to damaged buildings to shelter from the severe weather expected with the depression. Tropical Grace.

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