Instagram “can help” troubled youth, and “works for the good” of teenagers. This is what his boss Adam Mosseri said last December during his hearing before the American Congress. These declarations followed the revelations of the Wall Street Journal which had published internal studies of Facebook demonstrating the harmful consequences of its subsidiary Instagram on the image and the mental health of its youngest users. .
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Two years following its appearance, the world is still living to the rhythm of the waves of coronavirus at the start of 2022. With the outbreak of the Omicron variant, the world has recorded an average of more than 1.5 million positive cases of Covid-19 each day. This is the highest level since the start of the pandemic in 2020, according to data from Our World in Data, an online platform specializing in the inventory of official international data.
In France, according to Public Health France, in total, 52,020,924 people are fully vaccinated once morest Covid-19 in France, to which are added 1,246,144 people waiting for their last injection. There are also 28,364,991 people who received their booster dose. According to the Pasteur Institute, a return to normal in France is not possible before at least 90% of the population is vaccinated. What is herd immunity? Can we reach it? Can the Omicron variant help us?
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In France, the vaccination pass also imposed on foreign athletes
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
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As soon as the introduction of the vaccination pass was announced, the Ministry of Sports specified that it would apply to professional athletes working in France. Finally, whether they are French or foreign, all will have to present the sesame to access sports equipment in France.
After the expulsion from Australia of the world tennis star Novak Djokovic, the French government has clarified its doctrine on foreign athletes coming for a major competition. They will need to be vaccinated. Including for the Roland-Garros tennis tournament. Djokovic will therefore have to be vaccinated to participate in the second Grand Slam tournament of the year, in Paris (May 22 – June 5).
No sanitary bubble
A health bubble and a strict protocol, once considered, are no longer relevant. You will have to go through the syringe box. After claiming that an unvaccinated champion such as Novak Djokovic might participate in Roland-Garros by isolating himself, Sports Minister Roxana Maracineanu was forced by the executive to change position on Monday January 17.
On January 7 on France Info, the former swimmer said: ” [Un sportif] who will not be vaccinated […] will be able to participate in the competition because the protocol, the health bubble of these major sporting events, will allow it. There are health protocols imposed for major events by the federations in question, which are added, added to the protocol of the country and therefore this is what will allow someone like Novak Djokovic to be able to enter in France. on the territory. »
Sunday January 16, Gilles Moretton, the boss of the French Tennis Federation (FFT), announced that his teams were working ” in collaboration with public authorities ” to home ” unvaccinated foreign athletes » in view of the Grand Slam.
« The vaccination pass applies to everyone, volunteers, high-level athletes including from abroad and until further notice “, said the Ministry of Sports on Monday. Unless there is a new reversal, all athletes must therefore be vaccinated. This will therefore also be the case for the rugby players who will play in the next Six Nations tournament (February 5-March 19). According to the British press, several English international rugby players are not vaccinated.
What regarding Chinese and Russian vaccines?
Athletes will therefore have to show their vaccination pass before entering a stadium or gymnasium. Unvaccinated athletes will be able to access competitions by presenting proof, dated more than eleven days and less than six months, of their contamination with Covid-19. There remains a question of size: quid Chinese vaccines and russian, not recognized for the moment on French territory?
On Sunday, the French Parliament definitively adopted the text. But some political parties have seized the Constitutional Council on its application. The review should take place on Thursday January 20 and the law might be promulgated the next day and applicable immediately.
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As it becomes increasingly uncertain whether there will be a detailed explanation of the origin of Covid-19 in the near future, another relatively unknown virus continues to worry the WHO and scientists. His name is Nipah, he appeared in Malaysia in the late 1990s, and has been making regular appearances in Asia ever since.
While only 1,000 clinical deaths in total have been identified so far, with a mortality rate of between 40 and 75%, and an incubation period that can last up to 45 days, this virus affecting the brain is still considered one of the most serious epidemiological threats.
Object of little interest and research, it still remains very mysterious. But its appearance is well known, as are the causes of it: the destruction of the ecosystems where bats live, coupled with intensive farming. Two phenomena which have not however decreased in the world since the appearance of this virus.
“Nipah: the mysteries of a very deadly virus”, a great report by Gabrielle Maréchaux.
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