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The outdoor mask is back in several departments

One step forward, two steps back. Wearing a mask is once again compulsory in public spaces in certain municipalities of Meurthe-et-Moselle, Hérault and Vendée. The prefects of these departments have noted rapid increases in incidence rates and the exceeding of the alert threshold. Across France, 21,539 people tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday, compared to 18,000 the day before and nearly 9,000 a week ago. This is the first time since the beginning of May that the threshold of 20,000 contaminations per day has been exceeded. "In the 4th wave, we are there," Prime Minister Jean Castex acknowledged yesterday by launching "a collective challenge" to the population to reach 8 million additional vaccinations in the next two weeks.

Facies checks: the courts seized of a class action against the State, a first

A collective of six associations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, will take legal action today through an unprecedented group action in France to urge the state to end “discriminatory identity checks” by the police.

In January, these associations had called on the government to initiate "structural reforms" and "take concrete measures" to put an end to these controls.

The four-month period allowing the authorities to respond having expired, they seized the Council of State on Thursday.

Tokyo: dismissal for a joke on the Holocaust

The Tokyo Olympics, which start on Friday, are definitely off to a very bad start.

The person responsible for the opening ceremony was removed from his post because of a Holocaust joke dating back more than 20 years.

“During a past artistic performance,” Kentaro Kobayashi “used mocking language about a tragic historical fact,” Tokyo-2020 president Seiko Hashimoto told reporters.

The consequences of his ouster for the opening ceremony on Friday evening are still uncertain.

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