Whose fault is it? It was the Breton department the least affected at the end of confinement ... But now, Finistère has known, since the start of the school holidays, a significant increase in the number of people tested positive for Covid-19.
Between July 17 and 23, the number was + 160 in the region, including 66 in Finistère, where eight clusters were still detected on Thursday. According to authorities, more than 7,000 tests have been carried out since mid-July, and requests continue to grow. So everyone is wondering: how, in this department almost coated by the sea (1400 kilometers of coastline), did we come to such a turnaround? And above all, whose fault is it?
Whether via the Internet or on the terraces of bistros, the Bretons point the finger at a massive influx of tourists on the region's coast. In Finistère, the same words keep coming back: “we have never seen so many holidaymakers here! ". On social networks, as the prefectures or ARS Brittany confirm, we let loose on "all these tourists who come to invade [our] beaches". What the prefect of the region, Michèle Kirry, hastened to react: "the increase in the number of positive cases is not due to people who come from outside Brittany".
Words that have tended to harden others. “We must remain logical, raises Lou, 30 years old. There has inevitably been a general relaxation. It's everyone's fault, locals and tourists alike! ". Michèle Kirry mentioned in particular two family celebrations "for more than 200 people" which could explain the increase in positive cases, before recalling that the situation was, for the time being, "not alarming in resuscitation or emergency rooms. hospitalization ”. On the Finistère coast, we are still wondering ...