In the streets of Bordeaux on September 11, 2020. -

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WHO once again warns Europe in its fight against Covid-19

To those who think that the pandemic is now over, the World Health Organization on Tuesday issued yet another warning.

According to her, Europe is entering a decisive moment in the fight against Covid-19 with the start of the school year and the arrival of autumn.

For the WHO, governments must make clear choices.

“What is more important: the return of our children to classes or the opening of

nightclubs

and bars?

», Launched the Organization's director of emergency situations, Michael Ryan.

Virological saliva tests to detect Covid-19 in early October?

Screening is at the heart of the fight against the pandemic.

Saliva tests will therefore "very likely be put in place at the end of September or the beginning of October", indicated the president of the Scientific Council Jean-François Delfraissy on Tuesday before the senatorial commission of inquiry on the management of Covid-19.

According to him, these saliva tests - the sample of which is easier than that in the nose and less unpleasant for the person tested - would make it possible to have "a simpler strategy" of tests.

Air quality at critical levels in the American West

Gray, nothing but gray.

The air quality index (IQAir), deemed poor from 50, greatly exceeds 200 in California, Oregon and Washington state - and even approaches 500 as close as possible to the fires that ravage the west coast of the United States.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has argued that breathing the air in the worst-hit areas for a day is like smoking 400 cigarettes.

According to the New York Metro Weather website, smoke even crossed America to reach the Big Apple, where the sun glowed in a hazy sky.

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