Les Bleus at Clairefontaine during preparation for Euro 2021. – CHRISTOPHE SAIDI / SIPA
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Let’s take advantage of these few hours which still separate us from the start of the Euro. They are the best, when the competition is there, very close, but there is still time to focus on the great nation that will knock, the unknown player before the competition who will leave for City for 50 plaques after, or the controversy that will get us drunk. Euro 2021 starts this Friday with
his battalion of favorites and surprises to come. The sports department of 20 minutes shares, here, his home predictions before the kick-off of Turkey-Italy. And see you in a month to call us to account (or not).
According to Joe Biden, this is a “historic step” in the fight against the pandemic. On Thursday, the American president confirmed that the United States would give 500 million anti-Covid vaccines to poor countries. In the process, the British government announced that the G7 countries would commit to distributing a total of one billion vaccines to underprivileged countries. In addition to the 500 million American doses, there will be 100 million British doses, and the rest will come from the other five nations in the group: Germany, France, Italy, Japan and Canada.
Sixteen months after the nightmare of Diamond princess, the industry hopes to get its head out of the water. But Thursday, Royal Caribbean announced that two people have tested positive for Covid-19 aboard the Celebrity Millennium, one of the first cruise ships to sail in North America since the start of the pandemic, despite “a crew and passengers vaccinated”. “The individuals are asymptomatic, currently in isolation and monitored by our medical team,” said the company, which ensures conduct a contact tracing operation. The two people tested positive on the occasion of the “mandatory end-of-cruise test,” said Royal Caribbean, which claims the passengers presented a
proof of vaccination as well as a negative Covid-19 screening less than 72 hours before boarding.