The vaccination campaign against Covid-19 for children aged 5 to 11 is starting against a backdrop of the resumption of the epidemic boosted by the Omicron variant. With an incidence rate that is skyrocketing, the use of teleworking must be organized as quickly as possible, according to the Minister of Labor.
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France launched the Covid-19 vaccination campaign on Wednesday for children from 5 to 11 years old, announced the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran. ” We open the vaccination official for children “Of this age group, said the minister to the channel BFMTV-RMC, specifying that the booster dose was, on the other hand, not extended to adolescents” for the moment “.
For her part, the Minister of Labor, Élisabeth Borne, on the same day called on companies to ” accelerate »The use of telework facing the Covid-19, asking them to prepare ” right now [à le] to strenghten »At the start of the school year with a target of 3 to 4 days a week.
Telework: “four days when possible”
” It is clear that with the situation, we must speed up, strengthen teleworking (…) with a target of at least three days for positions that allow it, or even four days when possible. », Declared the Minister on the radio Europe 1.
Elisabeth Borne, Minister of Labor, Employment and Integration on telework: “I ask companies to prepare now to force telework (…) with a target of 3 days minimum for positions that allow it, even 4 days ” # Europe1pic.twitter.com/riTbj8B2hO
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the protocol health in business currently provides that ” the employers set, within the framework of the local social dialogue, the methods of appeal ” to telework, adding that ” in the context of an epidemic recovery, the target should be two to three days “, per week.
The wave Omicron is progressing very quickly in France, a few days before Christmas, with around 20% of positive cases for Covid-19 which now fall within this highly contagious variant, against 10% last weekend, the government announced Tuesday evening, faced with a resumption of the epidemic in the midst of winter. The incidence rate of Covid-19 once again reached a record in France, at 545 cases per week per 100,000 inhabitants and nearly double in Paris.
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