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Faced with the spread of the new variant of the coronavirus, the Ministry of Health had been monitoring since Sunday “with particular attention the overseas territories of Reunion Island and Mayotte which are in direct or indirect connection with the countries” of Southern Africa, with which the air links have been suspended since Friday. The news was therefore expected: the Omicron variant is officially in France. A positive case has been identified on Reunion Island, a researcher from the Joint Unit for Infectious Process Research in Tropical Island Environments (PIMIT) announced on Tuesday. The patient is “a 53-year-old man” who traveled to Mozambique and “made a stopover in South Africa” before coming to Reunion, said microbiologist Patrick Mavingui on the airwaves of
Meeting the 1st.
To calm the crisis in Guadeloupe, the Minister of Overseas Territories had planned to reconcile firmness and dialogue. But in the end, Sébastien Lecornu’s iron fist quickly removed his velvet glove. The minister only met briefly on Monday with the inter-union and announced the dispatch on site of 70 mobile gendarmes and ten additional members of the GIGN. According to him, no discussion is possible as long as the unions “do not want to condemn assassination attempts against police and gendarmes”. The meeting therefore came down to a simple handing over of “claim documents”. After this twenty-four hour visit to Guadeloupe, Sébastien Lecornu arrived in Martinique on Monday evening. An island also in the throes of a social crisis. The minister will be back in Paris on Wednesday.
Quite a symbol. For the first time, the Pantheon will welcome a black woman. Forty-six years after her death in 1975, Joséphine Baker, with an incredible life as a music hall artist, resistance fighter and anti-racist activist, will join the great French figures in the famous Parisian monument. Here I am Paris again, one of the diva’s most famous songs, will sound at 5:30 p.m. to kick off the ceremony. Born in 1906 in a segregationist America, Josephine Baker was only the sixth woman, out of 80 illustrious figures, to enter the secular temple of the Republic. She succeeds Simone Veil, who joined in 2018.