In the spotlight: the alert launched by the scientific council in the face of the threat of the English variant
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In France, wearing a mask is still relevant to curb the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic.
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By: Norbert Navarro
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The "
critical threshold
" seems reached in the most populous region of France, warns
Le Journal du Dimanche
.
According to this weekly, three days ago, faced with the British variant "
become dominant
", the scientific council sent the executive a "
secret opinion
" drawing up a "
pessimistic
" report of the "
degraded
"
health situation
in France in general. , in Ile-de-France in particular.
Being reminded that this region is not subject to weekend confinements like the city of Dunkirk and the Pas-de-Calais department, in the north of France and the Alpes-Maritimes coast, in the south-east,
The JDD
reveals
that the scientific council would alert on "
the hypothesis that the sudden conflagration in intensive care, with a possible decrease in the average age of the patients, characterizes precisely this second epidemic caused by the mutant
".
As
Le Journal du Dimanche
notes
, "
the mouse hole on which Emmanuel Macron bet is tightening more and more
".
The JDD
in which the Prime Minister assures us that the government is ready to make “
the necessary arrangements if necessary
”.
And Jean Castex once again to warn, "
if the situation worsens too much, it will be necessary to consider additional measures
",
said the head of government to the
Journal du Dimanche
.
Notice that falls, in any case, a year after the start of the health crisis linked to the coronavirus.
A year that has allowed the Internet to prove itself:
On the front page of
L'Express
, the writer Yuval Noah Harari takes stock of what the author of Sapiens (Albin Michel) calls “
the Covid year
”.
Among the "
most remarkable things
" about the said year, this successful essayist first highlights the resistance of the Internet, noting that, "
if you suddenly increase traffic on a bridge in the real world, traffic jams or even a collapse of the bridge can be expected.
In 2020, schools, offices and churches took to the Internet almost overnight, and the Internet held firm.
We don't take the time to think about it, but we should
,
writes Yuval Noah Harari in
L'Express
, try to imagine what would happen if our digital infrastructures failed
”.
According to him, “
the next Covid
” could well be “
an attack on our digital infrastructures.
It took several months for the coronavirus to spread around the world and infect millions of people.
Our digital infrastructures can collapse in a day,
”he warns.
In France, two radicalized young men, each suspected of plans for violent action in France, in particular against soldiers, were indicted yesterday by anti-terrorism judges and imprisoned:
"
The Islamist terrorist threat
is still very much alive in France
",
launches
Le Parisien Dimanche
, which announces these two arrests.
Aged 17 and 18, these two radicalized young people were arrested by the General Directorate of Internal Security, then indicted for "
criminal terrorist association
" before being placed in pre-trial detention, reports this newspaper, specifying that, on Telegram messaging, the first had mentioned his intention to attack the military.
The socio-political crisis in Senegal
Witness
Marianne
.
This magazine finds that the arrest of the opponent Ousmane Sonko - now released - (…) only "
crystallized an anger that had been contained for too long and, in the opinion of observers, unprecedented by its violence and its dissemination. across the country
”.
This weekly notes that, "
as of course, the so-called
" international community "
has expressed its concern.
And in particular France, now systematically held jointly responsible for everything that goes wrong, whatever it does or says
”.
And as "a
few economic strongholds
" have been the target of looting and attack,
Marianne
stresses that "
the rioters in Dakar have shown how fragile they were
".
Conclusion of this magazine, "
the new relationship dreamed of Emmanuel Macron is not for now ...
", therefore considers
Marianne
.
Literature finally, with a treasure that has nothing to envy to time, lost then found ... The first pages of the manuscript of
The search for lost time
, by Marcel Proust:
It is Thursday that these unpublished writings of Marcel Proust will appear at Gallimard, reported in front page by the weekly
L'Obs
and also hailed by Le Point.
Which magazine warns that "
the
discovery of these texts
(...)
that we thought were lost, is a thunderclap
."
Le Point
therefore says
, "
the story of a hidden literary treasure.
Now published under the title
Les So.75 Feuillets
,
these are Proust's first sketches of what will become
In Search of Lost Time
.
Like time in the novel, these manuscripts were lost and found
”, also formulates this weekly.
Le Point
describes these first pages, handwritten by Proust “
on large-format unregulated, non-watermarked, non-paginated vellum paper covering several chapters of the future
Research: In the shadow of young girls in bloom, Le Côté de Guermantes
,
and even
Albertine disappeared.
Like a Grail, this miraculous talisman was found in 2018,
”points out this magazine.
From a literary point of view, what can these recovered leaves be worth?
Le Point
is careful not to answer this question, confining itself to quoting Flaubert, who said (or wrote, I don't know): "
In a novel as in a necklace, what counts is the thread, not the pearls
”.
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