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On the front page of the French press, the end of confinement and the country which "is slowly leaving", according to Le Figaro. According to the daily, "the very low frequency of stations and metros in the Paris region has enabled a successful resumption of traffic, in compliance with the instructions".

Another bell on the side of Liberation. The newspaper resuscitates on its front page the formula of Jacques Chirac on "the social fracture", of 1995 and evokes a "recovery at two speeds", with on one side of the employees forced to hurry in transport, at the risk of being contaminated , and on the other, teleworkers who have stayed behind. According to Libé, this situation "once again questions the disparities in income related to social utility". "In this pandemic situation, those who earn the least are those who take the most risks," said the newspaper.

In Asia, on the front page of Shanghai Daily, the fear of a second epidemic wave in China, after the appearance of new cases of coronavirus in Wuhan, cradle of the pandemic. China, where Disneyland Park in Shanghai reopened yesterday, despite the threat of the coronavirus.

Still paralyzed, it, by a confinement which affects more than 1.3 billion inhabitants, India, has just increased the legal working hours in certain regions and facilitates dismissals in the hope of reviving the economy , according to the Courrier International. In Uttar Pradesh, in the north of the country, the authorities “did not act in the shade” and practically suspended the whole of the Labor Code “for a period of three years”. Pretext invoked: attracting willing companies to leave China. In India, more than 100 million people have lost their jobs since the start of the health crisis.

A detour, finally, to Kenya, where hair salons in Nairobi have launched a hair trend of which I let you judge. Nicknamed "Coronavirus", this new haircut, with its braids all around the head, similar to the crown of spikes of the virus, would not only be simple to make but also cheap, according to The Guardian.

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