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The powerful look of Ghada Hatem shows fatigue, the year has been tough at the Maison des femmes de Saint-Denis . All have caught the Covid. And it was feared that the general confinement would ruin five years of efforts to convince women victims of violence to push the door of this refuge. “At the first confinement, we said to ourselves that it would be impossible, says the director, women would no longer have excuses to leave their homes and come here on the sly. And on the side of the aggressors, the stress was not going to fix things. In addition to the Covid deaths, there was going to be an upsurge in feminicides and domestic violence, an epidemic of pregnancies outside the abortion deadlines… We thought we were heading for disaster.   As always since the Maison des femmes opened on a vacant lot at the Delafontaine hospital (Seine-Saint-Denis) in 2016, the team coped.  The house remained open, in real life and in video.  Attendance dropped, but everyone stayed at the...

From the first confinement, Magali wants to get involved.  She discovers a dramatic reality: in France, thousands of infants survive solely thanks to food donations.  With incredible energy, she founded the Mamama association, which continues to help the poorest mothers.  Reporting.  It's hard to imagine that the premises of Club Dorothée were located here. A vast shed on the Saint-Denis plain, where the temperature is close to zero degrees in winter. It is here that the girls of the MaMaMa* Association welcome all those who no longer have enough to feed their babies properly. Those that a twist of fate, that one confinement too many, that a violent companion, have definitely plunged into precariousness. It all starts with the first confinement. Magali, one of the three "Ma", set photographer for the cinema, enlists voluntarily with the Hospitals of Paris to ensure by telephone the follow-up of the patients of the Covid.  

It is the first country in the world to take the plunge.  The United Kingdom announced on Wednesday December 2 that it wanted to use the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on a massive scale, following, according to the British government, “the recommendation of the Independent Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to approve the vaccine. use of the Pfizer / BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine”.   This is “fantastic” news, tweeted Prime Minister Boris Johnson. “It is the protection of vaccines that will eventually allow us to resume our lives and restart the economy”. The UK has ordered a total of 40 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for 2020 and 2021, which will vaccinate 20 million people (just under a third of the population), with two doses needed. About 10 million doses of this vaccine, which must be stored at very low temperatures, should be available in the coming weeks, with 800,000 doses arriving as early as next week. They will be  aimed at priority ...