Six overseas territories are in a state of health emergency. Last week, Martinique and Reunion introduced a new containment. Today it is Guadeloupe’s turn to be re-defined for at least three weeks.
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After Martinique and Reunion, it is the turn of the Guadeloupe population to be re-defined for at least three weeks, from Wednesday 8:00 p.m. “We are in a catastrophic situation, we have exceeded 3,000 cases per week “, alerted Valérie Denux, director general of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Guadeloupe, during a joint press conference with the prefect, Alexandre Rochat.
A “catastrophic situation” in Guadeloupe
The number of Covid-19 cases has been “multiplied by more than 10 in three weeks“.”The incidence rate is 828 per 100,000 inhabitants. We have never reached this rate in Guadeloupe“, insisted Valérie Denux.
From Wednesday evening, the curfew will therefore be “advanced at 8:00 p.m. until 5:00 a.m.0 “, and during the day there will be”travel restrictions within a 10 km sphere around his home “, specified the prefect.
“We entered an extremely difficult phase“, underlined Alexandre Rochatte, evoking”essential measures when we see what happens during the weekend when the curfew has been reinstated “.
Martinique already re-defined
The prefect of this overseas region, Stanislas Cazelles, announced on July 28 a new confinement of the island from Friday July 30 at 7 p.m. for a period of at least three weeks.
“We are worried, the health situation is worsening and the Covid-19 figures are exploding“, assured at a press conference Olivier Coudin, deputy director of the Regional Health Agency (ARS), and Stanislas Cazelles.
The incidence rate in Martinique reached 1,068 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants. And this figure is 377 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in Reunion.
In Martinique, “this increase has repercussions on the number of admissions to emergencies, hospitalization and intensive care: the CHUM (University hospital center of Martinique) has reached a level of saturation“, also specifies a press release from the prefecture.
Partial confinement in Reunion
24 hours after Martinique, it was Reunion Island’s turn to announce partial confinement from the weekend of July 31 when partial confinement during the day, “reinforced by a strict curfew from 6 p.m. to 5 a.m.“, was set up last weekend for a period of two weeks.
“From 5 a.m. to 6 p.m., travel is limited to a radius of 10 km around his home from Monday to Saturday“and this ray is”lowered to 5 km on Sunday“, specified the prefect Jacques Billant, stressing that the Reunionese will be able only”come and go, within a radius of 10 km, in stores“where the mask must be worn continuously.
Patient transfers to the metropolis
The objective is to “take all necessary measures to protect local hospitals, which could quickly find themselves under great strain“with the resurgence of Covid-19 cases,” the government spokesman said.
A medical plane carrying three Covid patients in intensive care landed overnight from Saturday to Sunday in mainland France from Martinique. The latter were taken care of in Ile-de-France establishments of the AP-HP, we learned Sunday from the general direction of health.
