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On the front page of the press, the strengthening of restrictions in the state of Victoria, Australia - to fight against the spread of Covid-19.

The 5 million inhabitants, already reconfined since July 7, will spend the next six weeks  " under the strictest curfew in the history of the country", according to The Australian - which evokes a state plunged into "a coma of the Covid ”. Prohibition to leave home between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m., authorization to go shopping granted to one person per household, and within a radius of 5 km, return from school to home: d 'after The Herald Sun, the Prime Minister of the State of Victoria declared yesterday a state of catastrophe and measures of "shock and awe", so that the inhabitants finally take the measure of the gravity of the situation, after the number of cases of Covid-19 contamination doubled in the state of Victoria in a single week.  

Faced with the threat of a second epidemic wave, laboratories around the world have embarked on a race against time to find a vaccine against the new coronavirus. Le Temps reports that a total of five vaccine projects have already started phase III clinical trials, i.e. efficacy tests on several thousand people. According to the Swiss daily, this last step, which allows pharmaceutical companies to apply for a marketing authorization, has been "considerably accelerated" - but in addition to the question of the effectiveness, not yet proven, therefore, of these potential vaccines , also arises the question of production capacities: "Even if an effective vaccine is discovered, there is little chance that there will be a sufficient quantity", warns the newspaper, indicating that "this winter again, the best “vaccine”, in quotes, will be to continue to apply the rules of social distancing and barrier gestures ”. "Be careful not to feed too high hopes, which risk fueling resistance to simple strategies that can slow the transmission (of Covid-19) and save lives in the short term," also warns The Washington Post , in the USA.

Also on the front page, the continuation on Saturday of the demonstrations against the Kremlin in Khabarovsk, in the Russian Far East. For the fourth consecutive weekend, demonstrators took to the streets to support ex-governor Sergei Fourgal, arrested on July 9 - an arrest, officially, for murder, but which these protesters attribute to the victory of Sergei Fourgal facing the Kremlin candidate in the 2018 elections. "It's a question of dignity", comments a political scientist from the region, in the columns of the Financial Times . "People felt humiliated and understood that they had been punished for their choice, like little children who do things their parents don't like."

In Belarus, tens of thousands of people continue to rally around Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who will face in the presidential election next Sunday Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994. The Independent reports a "battle to overthrow the dictator of Europe "- a mobilization" unprecedented "since the coming to power of Alexander Lukashenko, according to the British daily. Questioned by Liberation , Svetlana Tikhanovskaya said she decided to run as a candidate to take over from her husband, the opponent Sergei Thikanovsky, arrested on May 29. An arrest among hundreds of others, according to a Belarusian human rights association. According to Libé, the repression of recent months "responds to the mobilization triggered by the Covid", in the face of which Alexander Lukashenko would have shown "denial" and "delirium", asserting in particular that the coronavirus is treated "with blows of sessions of vodka-sauna or in the open air, preferably on a tractor ”.

We do not leave each other on this.Before saying to you tomorrow, I suggest you take a look at L'Equipe , which salutes Lewis Hamilton's new victory. The racing driver won his seventh British Grand Prix yesterday, in complicated conditions to say the least, as he had to finish his last lap with a flat tire. "Indestructible!", Ecstasy, suddenly, the daily sports.

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