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Weikia Jiang, White House correspondent for CBS, was aboard Air Force One hours after the renamed “super cluster” event in September at the Rose Garden of the White House when President Donald Trump passed a head into the reporters' office to say hello. A week later, he tested positive for Covid-19 , and Jiang had many questions. Had she contracted the virus? Had she endangered her daughter under the age of two?   "We did everything to protect ourselves," Jiang explains, "but we can't control everything."  After two weeks in quarantine and four negative tests, Jiang returned to the air on Oct. 12 to talk about Trump's return to campaigning. In the pre-pandemic world, correspondents like Jiang and his colleague Paula Reid would have traveled the roads with the president, herding together, fishing for quotes in packed briefing rooms.  Instead, they respect social distances at presidential press briefings, and interview the most powerful people in the count...

More than five days, sometimes a week. The waiting times for obtaining results after a Covid screening are sometimes extremely long in cities whose laboratories are overloaded. With the rebound of the epidemic,  Emmanuel Macron announced Wednesday, October 28 the establishment of a new  national containment. During his speech, the Head of State assured that France was one of the countries which practiced the most tests. And he recalled his desire to continue this reinforced screening strategy, referring to certain “rapid” tests. These saliva and antigen tests make it possible to relieve the laboratories, however, nothing replaces “a diagnosis established from an RT-PCR test making it possible to determine the presence of the genome of SARS-CoV-2”, warns Health Insurance .   To meet the exponential demand, a Norman start-up called Loop Dee Science has been working on the issue for several months now.  While studying coronaviruses in dogs and cats, biologists had a hun...

Emmanuel Macron took the floor this evening to announce the terms of the relaxation of confinement, which will take place in three stages, from Saturday November 28 to January 20, 2021. “The peak of the second epidemic wave has passed. It was with this good news that President Emmanuel Macron's speech began. He presented, on November 24, his three-step deconfinement plan.   FIRST STAGE: SATURDAY, OPENING OF SHOPS   This Saturday, shops will be able to open until 9 p.m. All so-called “non-essential” businesses will be able to welcome customers again, “respecting a strict health protocol”.Home services may resume. Outdoor extra-curricular activities will again be permitted. Walks and physical activities will now be possible within a radius of 20 kilometers and for a duration of three hours. Religious services will again be permitted within the limit of 30 people. However, the certificate will still be necessary to move.