Already confined for two weekends, the Dunkirk people will have to be confined for three additional weekends. This is what the North Prefecture has just announced on Tuesday, March 9 in a press release, indicating that the maintenance of these strong measures responds to a still tense health situation.
The agglomeration of Dunkirk confined 3 additional weekends
While Dunkirk has been confined over the weekend since February 27, the Northern Prefecture announced this Tuesday, March 9 in a press release, that the partial confinement is extended for three additional weekends. The agglomeration of Dunkirk will therefore be confined on the weekends of March 13 and 14, March 20 and 21 and March 27 and 28. In addition to Dunkirk, the extension of the confinement also concerns the municipalities of Hauts de Flandre. A decision that follows “A health situation which remains particularly tense and which justifies the maintenance of strong measures As the North Prefecture specified in its press release.
A health situation that remains tense
According to the prefecture, “ the first effects of the measures deployed (…) are starting to be felt, with a drop in incidence rates observed over the past two weeks “. However, the rates for the urban community of Dunkirk and the community of the Hauts de Flandre municipalities remain well above the national average. Indeed, there are 785 cases per 100,000 inhabitants for the agglomeration of Dunkirk, 687 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the community of communes of Hauts de Flandre against 216.9 per 100,000 inhabitants at the national level.
Likewise, resuscitation beds are largely occupied in Dunkirk hospitals, which makes continued patient transfers essential. For the time being, more than 90 patients have already been transferred in one month, including five outside the region, according to statements from the prefecture.
The Dunkirk people hailed for their “individual responsibility”
Despite everything, the prefect of the North Michel Lalande wanted to greet on Twitter ” the individual responsibility of the inhabitants “From Dunkirk,” who took the measure of the gravity of the situation by respecting the measures to fight against the epidemic “. While the police have carried out, for the moment, 1,812 checks during the first two weekends of confinement, ” only 264 people were fined As indicated by the prefecture.
