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After Martinique, Guadeloupe is reconfiguring itself.
Faced with a "catastrophic situation" in terms of the Covid-19 epidemic, the island will be re-confined for a period of at least three weeks from Wednesday 8 p.m., announced the prefect Alexandre Rochatte on Monday.
If the shops remain open, as well as the restaurants at noon, the bars will all be closed, as will the gymnasiums, stadiums and swimming pools.
It will be forbidden to picnic on the beaches and to take sound systems on the boats to organize parties.
On the beaches, only the "dynamic" presence will be allowed, as part of a walk, swimming or individual sporting activity.
On the other hand, the so-called “static” presence will be prohibited.
"I call, insisted the prefect, that all the demonstrations of August be canceled or postponed, in particular the patronal festivals", much celebrated in Guadeloupe.
"I hope that we will not need to go further," concluded the prefect, indicating that a new point would be made next week.
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Sanofi is investing even more in messenger RNA.
After recently announcing significant investments, the French giant is further accelerating with the buyout for 2.7 billion euros of an American specialist in this technology very visible since the Covid-19 crisis, Translate Bio. Sanofi itself is already working closely with Translate Bio on a project for a messenger RNA vaccine against the coronavirus, at an early stage since it has not yet been tested on a large scale.
The epidemic is returning to Wuhan.
The Chinese city where the epidemic first appeared at the end of 2019 is in turn affected by a limited outbreak and will screen all its inhabitants. Three new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Monday in the metropolis of 11 million souls, caught by an outbreak of the Delta strain that appeared last month in the east of the country. The previous cases recorded in the city dated back to May 2020.
JO: Simone Biles in bronze on the beam.
Gymnastics superstar Simone Biles won the bronze medal in the balance beam final at the Tokyo Olympics, behind China's Guan Chenchen who becomes Olympic champion and succeeds the American.
Stopped for a week, Simone Biles, four-time Olympic champion in Rio, obtained the score of 14,000 points with a simplified exercise on the beam.
She was beaten by Guan with 14.633 points and another Chinese gymnast Tang Xijing (14.233 pts).
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The return of the ring, but on a small screen. The big budget series "The Lord of the Rings", based on the fantasy saga of JRR Tolkien, will be broadcast worldwide from September 2, 2022, announced Amazon, which hopes to compete with "Game of Thrones". Amazon, which in 2017 acquired the television rights to this cult work for an estimated sum of $ 250 million, said in a statement that the "shooting of the first season (had) ended Monday in New Zealand".