The virus is actively circulating in no less than 42 departments. France is experiencing an upsurge in the number of people infected with Covid-19: 9,843 cases in 24 hours. What should we take away from Prime Minister Jean Castex’s speech? Which departments are in the red zone?
The main points mentioned by Jean Castex
The government calls on the French to remain vigilant and invites them to maintain barrier gestures. Each person is responsible in the fight against the epidemic. The level of circulation of the virus worries and the Prime Minister mentions the obligation to “make tough decisions” in the “eight to ten days maximum”. Indeed, France wants to avoid a second wave of the epidemic and containment of the whole country. Isolation is no longer 14, but 7 days, with possible controls during this period. Jean Castex announces an improvement in the tracing of patients, thanks to the recruitment of 2,000 additional people in the health insurance and ARS (regional health agency). The government will ensure that “screening tents”Be installed in large cities, where there are priority needs and people. There is a real need to increase screening capacities, even if France is “the 3rd country that tests the most in Europe”With more than 1 million tests carried out every week.
“Worrisome” situations in Marseille, Bordeaux and Guadeloupe
The prefects of the departments classified in red must propose “additional measures” starting Monday. In Marseille and Bordeaux as well as in Guadeloupe, strong measures are to be expected, because the number of cases continues to increase in these two cities. In addition, the hospitalization rate is already high. Local containment was not mentioned, nor any other measure. We have to wait until September 14 to find out more: “given the forecasts that we can make at 3 weeks on the occupancy of the intensive care beds, I asked the prefects concerned to suggest to me by Monday, and after having carried out the necessary local consultations, a set of new additional measures”.
Which departments are in red?
The departments in which the virus is actively circulating are Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Corsica, Côte-d’Or, Gard, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, Hérault, Loiret, North, Bas-Rhin, Rhône, Sarthe, Seine-Maritime, Var, Vaucluse, the departments of Ile-de-France, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion, Pas-de-Calais, Maine-et-Loire, Loire-Atlantique, Ille-et-Vilaine, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Tarn-et-Garonne, Pyrénées-Orientales, Aude, Ain, Puy-de- Dôme, Loire, Isère, Guyana and Mayotte.
