She was eagerly awaited. The first map of departmental deconfinement, promised by Edouard Philippe, was unveiled this Thursday evening by the Ministry of Health. Presented daily until May 7, this tool is supposed to give an overview of the level of deconfinement that the French should expect from May 11.
If your department is classified in green, this means that the deconfinement will take place under the conditions set out on Wednesday, in particular with regard to the reopening of colleges or parks.
If your department is listed in red, the infection rate and the number of people hospitalized are still too high. And therefore that the movement restrictions will be more important, even if the vagueness persists on the modalities of this "more strict" deconfinement. In orange, the departments which are in an intermediate situation.
Please note: this card will change every day before being "crystallized" on May 7. Each department will then be fixed on the “red” or “green” category in which it will be classified after May 11.
Selection criteria
How were the departments decided? The first criterion, established by the Ministry of Health and Public Health France, is "the rate of new cases in the population over a period of seven days", one of the data which makes it possible to assess the rate of active circulation.
The second factor is “the tension” of hospital capacities, assessed at regional level. It will be a question of seeing, according to the rate of use of intensive care and intensive care beds, "the capacity of the hospital system to have recovered from this first wave," said Edouard Philippe on Wednesday.
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Last parameter taken into account: the level of preparation of each territory to be able to test all the patients presenting symptoms and to detect the people having been in contact with confirmed cases of Covid, condition sine qua non to avoid too rapid and massive recovery of the epidemic.