Faced with the 4th wave, the government is rolling out its new anti-Covid measures

State of health emergency in Guadeloupe, new health protocol at school and generalization of the health pass on August 9: the government carried out its measures to contain the spread of Covid-19, against which more than 50% of French people are now vaccinated. At the end of the Council of Ministers, chaired by Emmanuel by videoconference From the plane that brought him back from Polynesia to Paris, the government spokesperson deplored a health situation “which continues to worsen and which remains worrying.” A state of health emergency will also be declared on Wednesday evening in Guadeloupe, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélémy, due to a high incidence rate and too low vaccination coverage in these overseas territories. In Martinique, the prefect announced a new lockdown of the island starting at 19:00 on Friday for at least three weeks. On Tuesday evening, France exceeded the symbolic threshold of 50% of its fully vaccinated population, a level still far from the herd immunity threshold, estimated at around 90% with the Delta variant

Pegasus: Israel assures France takes the case seriously

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz assured his French counterpart Florence Parly on Wednesday that his country takes “seriously” allegations of espionage concerning the Israeli software Pegasus, suspected of having also been used against President Emmanuel Macron. Benny Gantz “addressed the subject of NSO (the Israeli cybersecurity company behind Pegasus) and said that Israel took the allegations seriously,” the Israeli Defense Ministry said in a statement. Pegasus, which allows computer systems to be infiltrated, is at the heart of a global espionage scandal revealed in mid-July by 17 media. It would have made it possible to spy on the numbers of at least 180 journalists, 85 human rights activists or 14 heads of state including French President Emmanuel Macron - which NSO denies

Tunisia waiting for a government

Three days after the coup by Tunisian President Kais Saied, who took over executive power and suspended Parliament for 30 days, calls are growing for a road map and for the establishment of a new government. The president cited “imminent perils” facing Tunisia, which has been plunged into a deep political crisis for months, to justify his seizure of power on Sunday. He dismissed Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi, who was much criticised for his management of the Covid-19 epidemic, which left Tunisia short of oxygen and overwhelmed by a spike in hospitalizations, saying that he would exercise executive power with “the help of a government” whose head he had to appoint

AT A GLANCE

20,000 euros fine and a mea culpa: the former reality TV star Nabilla Benattia-Vergara was sanctioned by the Fraud Suppression for promoting stock market services on Snapchat without mentioning that she was paid, a practice far from marginal among influencers.

The French data regulator, the CNIL, fined the agrochemist Monsanto (owned by Bayer) 400,000 euros for illegally filing public figures, journalists and activists with the aim of influencing the public debate on the ban of glyphosate.

American Caeleb Dressel won the top swimming race at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday, the 100 m freestyle, in 47 sec 02/100th. For his first Games, Maxime Grousset, 22 years old and waterline number 8, took fourth place (47.72