Martinique confined, the EDF reform postponed and the Day of the overtaking: the information to remember this noon

The info not to be missed

While the health situation has deteriorated sharply in Martinique, the authorities have taken new measures.

Containment will be put in place from tomorrow at 7 p.m. and for three weeks, "with a review clause in mid-August," announced the prefect, Stanislas Cazelles, last night at a press conference.

The curfew in effect today at 9 p.m. has been reduced to 7 p.m. and will last until 5 a.m.

It is also the return of compelling reasons: "Any movement beyond a limit of 10 km around the home will be subject to a certificate," said the prefect.

Restaurants and bars will therefore have to close in the evening when patients should soon be repatriated to metropolitan France to relieve the territory's hospitals.

What to also remember

• EDF reform postponed.

  The EDF reform project - baptized "Hercules" then "Grand EDF" - will not succeed before the end of Emmanuel Macron's five-year term.

  This complex issue aroused strong political and trade union opposition in France.

  "We regret that this reform, which is essential for EDF, cannot be concluded now", reacted its CEO, Jean-Bernard Lévy.

• The Madeleine Malonga judokate in silver.

  A magnificent medal, yet greeted with hot tears and intense disappointment.

  Madeleine Malonga, 27, became Olympic vice-champion in -78 kg after her final lost against the Japanese Hamada.

  The young woman, who offers France her tenth medal at the Tokyo Olympics, burst into tears after the fight.

• Overshoot Day: Earth now lives on credit.

  This Thursday is a dark day for the environment since it corresponds, according to the calculations of an American institute, to the date from which humanity has consumed all the natural resources that the planet is able to regenerate in one year. .

• Covid-19: Google and Facebook employees will have to be vaccinated to come to work.

  The two Internet giants will only accept vaccinated employees at their premises in the United States, but also soon in other regions of the world.

The unexpected info

To win the vaccination race, New York City is going out of its way and will now offer $ 100 for a first dose. This gratuity is part of the incentives announced by Mayor Bill de Blasio to push residents of the Big Apple to get vaccinated. Joe Biden plans to announce today new national measures to accelerate the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 in the United States, in slow motion for several months. Decryption.