All of Martinique and Guadeloupe are placed from Wednesday evening under curfew between 20h and 5h, to enforce the containment measures intended to fight against the epidemic of coronavirus, announced the prefects of the two departments .
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In Guadeloupe, all travel is prohibited during these hours, with the exception of home-work trips that cannot be postponed and those motivated by a medical emergency, according to the prefecture. " The groupings at the end of the day worry me the most, " said Martinique Prefect Stanislas Cazelle, who also decided to " close all food businesses no later than 7 pm, " at a press conference. " There are too many people who go shopping three times a week ", " too many people who continue to go too often in stores " to find acquaintances there, he lamented. “ I ask each family to organize themselves so that only one person per family can go shopping. She does not find her friends there and goes there once a week, "he insisted, demanding" an evolution in behavior "in the face of this" multishopping phenomenon ".
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" If we cannot find solutions " to reduce these trips, " regulatory measures up to targeting one day a week for each family to go shopping " will be taken, he threatened . With 128 cases confirmed on Monday evening, 15 people in intensive care and 3 deaths, Martinique is " hard hit " and "is experiencing an aggravation every day " of the health balance linked to the coronavirus, deplored the prefect. Guadeloupe, for its part, lists 125 confirmed cases on April 1, including 14 patients in intensive care and 6 deaths. In Guyana, the curfew for the entire department has been in effect since March 25. Among the other overseas territories, Mayotte and French Polynesia have taken identical measures in recent days.
