The info not to be missed
From next Monday, the mask will no longer be compulsory at school in twelve new departments, according to the list published early this Thursday morning in the Official Journal.
Since the start of the week, 68 departments were already concerned.
In these territories, the circulation of the virus is indeed maintained below the threshold of the incidence rate of 50 daily cases per day per 100,000 inhabitants.
These are Seine-et-Marne, Ain, Ariège, Charente, Cher, Drôme, Gard, Hérault, Moselle, Haut-Rhin, Var and Haute- Vienna.
Conversely, Lozère is the first department to re-impose the mask on its schoolchildren, due to two outbreaks of contamination in schools which have raised the curves of the epidemic.
Also to remember
The return of the Women's Tour 12 years later.
A few minutes before unveiling the route of the men's Tour de France, the organizers of the Great Loop lifted the veil at the end of the morning on the layout of the legendary race in the women's version.
It will set off on July 24, a few days after the boys' arrival in Paris, from the Eiffel Tower for a little over 1,000 kilometers, completed in eight stages, to the Planche des Belles Filles station in the Vosges mountains.
The women's competition was no longer organized since 2009.
The #TDFF with @GoZwift 2022:
🚩 1,029 km
⛰ 2 mountain stages
💪 2 punchy stages
💨 4 flat stages
The #TDFF with Zwift 2022 in figures:
🚩 1,029 km
⛰ 2 mountain
stages 💪 2 hilly stages
💨 4 mountain stages plain.
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- The Tour de France Women with Zwift (@LeTourFemmes) October 14, 2021
Children overexposed to air pollution.
The finding is alarming: in France, nearly three in four children breathe polluted air, according to a report on the consequences of air pollution published this Thursday by the Climate Action Network and Unicef France. A figure which is explained "by a greater exposure to air pollution in the cities, where most children live", remind the organizations. The youngest would be "particularly vulnerable" to these pollutants "because of the immaturity of their bodies and the frequency with which they breathe, likely to cause many pathologies", such as asthma and allergies, point out the NGOs. . And poverty accentuates this phenomenon.
The metro ticket is almost finished!
After 121 years of existence, the metro ticket is about to bow out. From this Thursday, the booklets of 10 tickets are no longer available for sale in the machines of a hundred stations. The disappearance of paper support will gradually extend to the entire network.
In Norway, the suspect of the archery attack, arrested, is a Danish convert to Islam.
The alleged perpetrator of an archery attack that left five dead and two injured in Kongsberg, south-eastern Norway, is a 37-year-old Dane who converted to Islam and was the subject of in the past of "fears of radicalization," Norwegian police said Thursday.
"This is about a convert to Islam," Norwegian police official Ole Bredrup Saeverud said at a press briefing in Tønsberg on Thursday.
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The unexpected info
Derivatives, sweets and pirating: the planetary madness around the South Korean series "Squid Game" reaches China, where access to Netflix, the platform which broadcasts the series, is however blocked.
Dozens of Chinese sites, very easy to access, offer to watch the series illegally in streaming, contributing to its growing success in the country.
And the local manufacturers quickly understood the advantage they could derive from it: in Shanghai, a small shop sells sugar cakes, at the heart of an episode of the series.
Informed by social networks, fans rush to it.