“It had to happen eventually”: the upset daily life of a “covided” French base in Antarctica

His first trip to Antarctica will have ended with the arrival of the Covid on site. “Even here, the strategy will now be to live with the virus”, philosophizes Dr Céline Dupin, doctor at the French Dumont d’Urville base in Antarctica. Until then spared by the successive waves in France, the scientific station managed by the Paul-Émile Victor Polar Institute and located 14,000 km from Paris is facing a polar “tsunami”.