[Link] Calls for French minister to resign after announcing Covid protocol from Ibiza

Read: 19/1/2022 www.theguardian.com

France’s education minister is facing calls to resign after it emerged he had announced a strict Covid-testing protocol for schools shortly before the start of the January school term while he was on holiday in Ibiza.

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[Link] Omicron, the Death Metal Band, Would Like to Clarify a Few Things.

Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com

Let’s cut to the chase. There’s a death metal band in Belgium that, as of last week, shares its name with a coronavirus variant. But unlike the World Health Organisation, they were “totally not” influenced by the Greek alphabet. 

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