In the headlines: the alert to the Indian variant of the coronavirus which is making the British tremble
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Illustrative photo of a stadium converted into a health center in India.
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By: Norbert Navarro
9 mins
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On the front page of the newspaper
Le Parisien
... The United Kingdom is, in Europe, the country "
whose situation worries the most
", warns this daily.
Which indicates "
a fairly notable increase in the number of new daily cases of Covid-19, from a little over 2,000 to nearly 4,000 in twenty days.
Over the past week, the increase reached 40%,
”said this newspaper.
The reason ?
Much of the spread of the so-called "
Indian
"
variant
, dubbed Delta by the World Health Organization.
Now dominant across the Channel (more than 50% of new cases sequenced every day), it is more transmissible than the original strains and "
it is very likely
" that it is also "
significantly more
" than the variant says. "
British
".
Le Parisien
finally points out that in France
, “
54 episodes of at least one positive case for this variant have been identified
”.
For its part,
Le Figaro is
taking the Chinese trail this morning to the alleged origin of the coronavirus.
Leading to the city of Wuhan, this track mentioned many times, never proven, would point the finger at China:
"
The track of the Chinese laboratory is becoming clearer,
"
says
Le Figaro
, with reference to the hunt for American investigators who point to "
the possibility of a
" laboratory leak "which
occurred in the fall of 2019 at the Wuhan Institute of Virology
" .
This daily is also based on "
the revelation that several scientists from
(this institute)
were hospitalized in November 2019
", he underlines.
Info or intox ?
In any case, "
irrefutable proof of a state lie will be difficult to obtain,
"
admits
Le Figaro
.
So, in the absence of proof, this daily suggests that virology laboratories be "
monitored as closely by the international community as nuclear or chemical arsenals
", including civilian laboratories, "
where Doctor Mabuse juggles death
" .
In France, the raising of the legal retirement age is resurfacing. This provision of the "mother of reforms" wanted by Emmanuel Macron (and delayed by the coronavirus crisis) could very quickly be on the agenda:
And it is this morning in
Le Parisien that
“
the countdown
”
is launched
.
Because, according to this daily, "
the idea of a big social conference, at the end of June during July, is infusing at the moment at the Élysée
".
Le Parisien
reports that a “
Retirement 2
” version would be “
stripped of its contours of a social project, and therefore of systemic reform by points
”.
Recalling the content of a government note that this same newspaper had revealed last year, Le Parisien underlines that the authors (of the said note) recommended in particular to "
gradually raise the legal retirement age to 64 years, against 62 currently,
”
points out
Le Parisien
.
This corrigendum now, about Côte d'Ivoire and your Africa press review yesterday, Friday:
At the same time, in fact,
I cited the Mondafrique site
according to which a Médiamétrie poll gave Laurent Gbagbo twice as much popularity as Alassane Ouattara.
Today, the company Médiamétrie replies that it has never done a political poll, that its Ivorian subsidiary Omedia has not done any for two years and that information on the current popularity of politicians in Côte d'Ivoire does not. can therefore in no case come from a survey by Médiamétrie or its subsidiary Omedia.
Finally, after two days in police custody in connection with the case of the alleged Libyan financing of Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential campaign in 2007, Michèle Marchand, "
the popes of the press people
", was referred yesterday:
It is the site of the
Parisian
which reveals this "
deferral
".
Director of the Bestimage agency but also "close to the Macron couple", underlines this newspaper, Michèle Marchand, for forty-eight hours, was heard "
in the context of a judicial investigation opened by the National Financial Prosecutor's Office for witness tampering and criminal association
”after the retraction, from Lebanon, last November in
Paris Match
then on
BFMTV
, of the intermediary Ziad Takieddine, in the case of the financing of Nicolas Sarkozy's election campaign in 2007.
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