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The implementation of the health pass in dozens of large French shopping centers, contested by the profession which complains of a sharp drop in attendance, was suspended Tuesday in a new department in the Paris suburbs, after several similar decisions elsewhere .
After Yvelines and Essonne in Ile-de-France, the Hauts-de-Seine administrative court on Tuesday suspended the prefectural decree which had imposed the pass in two supermarkets in this department bordering Paris, on the grounds that it prevented people’s access to basic goods and services. The pass has also been suspended in the Haut-Rhin.
A suspension was also requested in the capital; a hearing is scheduled for Tuesday at the Paris administrative court.
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Israel has reached a new record of daily Covid-19 contamination since the start of the pandemic, with nearly 11,000 cases recorded on the eve of the start of the school year, the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday.
In recent weeks, the number of Covid cases has continued to increase in Israel against the backdrop of the spread of the Delta variant, more contagious, in unvaccinated adults but also in people vaccinated there are more than six months which prompted the authorities to launch a campaign for the administration of a booster dose of the vaccine.
As of Monday, authorities announced more than 9,000 cases, a number that rose to 10,947 on Tuesday (7.65% positive tests), surpassing the previous record of 10,118 cases in one day recorded on January 18, according to data from the Ministry of Health, which however reported a slight decline in the number of serious cases across the country.