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In addition to the fight against inflation or even the search for a majority in the Assembly, Elisabeth Borne will have to put the coronavirus at the top of her priorities. In Matignon, the pandemic is indeed making a comeback in the front pages of the diaries. The Prime Minister thus brings together the prefects and directors of ARS by videoconference this Tuesday to discuss the epidemic situation. The meeting, which will begin at 3 p.m., will make it possible to issue a series of recommendations for the coming weeks. It must be said that France plunged back into a new wave at the start of the summer, driven by new sub-variants of the Omicron family. Contaminations have been increasing for three weeks in all metropolitan areas and all age groups and now reach around 55,000 cases every day.
The UN will once again look into Russian abuses in Ukraine. kyiv has indeed requested an emergency meeting of the Security Council on the latest Russian bombings against civilian targets, to be held Tuesday at 3 p.m. (9 p.m. in Paris). The firing of a missile on Monday at a shopping center in Kremenchuk, in central Ukraine, “will be the main subject” of this session, said a spokesman for the Albanian diplomatic mission.
Migrants have once again experienced hell. The horror this time took place in Texas. The number of people found dead on Monday in a truck is at least 46, according to the latest report from the San Antonio fire chief. Charles Hood further clarified that sixteen injured – twelve adults and four children – had been taken care of and were “conscious” when transported to medical services. Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard regretted a “tragedy” on Twitter and indicated that the Mexican consul, although we do not “know the nationalities” of the victims, was going there.