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Be careful if you are planning a trip to the UK. Thursday evening, London announced that people from France going to the territory will, from Saturday, be subject to a two-week quarantine. A protective measure aimed at keeping Covid-19 infection rates down across the Channel, while France, like other countries such as the Netherlands, Monaco or Malta, is considered a area where the coronavirus is circulating rapidly. "If you arrive in the United Kingdom from one of these destinations after 4 hours GMT (6 hours in Paris, 5 hours in London, Editor's note) on Saturday, you will have to isolate yourself for 14 days", specifies the British Minister for Transport. In response, Paris assured that a "reciprocity measure" would be put in place.
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- Paris and the Bouches-du-Rhône are now “zones of active circulation of the virus”. What does that change? The prefects will be able to take several measures "for the sole purpose of combating the spread of the virus": limiting authorized movements, closing restaurants, or even banning certain gatherings.
- They attacked a nurse who asked them to put on a mask, in Neuilly-sur-Marne, in Seine-Saint-Denis. The two 16-year-old suspects are now under judicial supervision. We explain why in this article.
- Another boost for farmers hit by drought: the government will allow the opening of the compensation scheme for "calamities" to farmers and breeders victims of the heat wave in France. They should also benefit from other emergency cash aid such as certain tax reductions, announced the Minister of Agriculture, Julien Denormandie.
The unexpected info
The most expensive sneakers in the world. A pair of Air Jordan 1s sold at auction for $ 615,000 (approximately € 520,000), Christie's announced. As you can imagine, this is not just any pair of shoes: red and white, sporting the Nike comma - called the black "swoosh" of the famous Air Jordan 1 Chicago model - it was worn during of a friendly match played on August 25, 1985 in Trieste, Italy. This match is best known for a precise action, during which the American rear flew off at the end of the counterattack to dunker, causing a shock which caused the plexiglass to explode. The left shoe had retained a piece of it in its sole, Christie's said.
