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Covid-19: in Guadeloupe, all the lights are red

2020-09-27T13:06:07.802Z


As in the Aix-Marseille metropolis, very strict measures have been taken by the prefecture of Guadeloupe. It is in this territory that


It is the second zone classified in a state of “maximum alert”, but one speaks about it much less than of the Aix Marseille metropolis.

Guadeloupe is, however, also facing a worrying level of the epidemic.

The indicators are exploding and several very strict restriction measures have entered into force this Saturday or will be this Sunday evening.

"We are experiencing a wave that is disproportionate to the first wave", testified this week Marc Valette, head of the intensive care unit of the CHU of Pointe-à-Pitre, on France 24.

Record incidence rate and positivity rate

The numbers, first of all.

A department goes on “maximum alert” when the incidence rate (the number of new cases per 100,000 inhabitants over the past week) exceeds 250, that among the elderly crosses the 100 mark, and the proportion of patients having Covid-19 in intensive care exceeds 30%.

The incidence rate in Guadeloupe is 293.7 from September 17 to 23, the highest level for a French department, and it is well above 100 among those over 60 years old.

28 patients are hospitalized in intensive care this Saturday, well above 30% of the capacity of the islands.

In overseas, it is Guadeloupe which identifies "the highest weekly rate in intensive care", it is indicated in the epidemiological bulletin of Public Health France of September 24.

"We had to take care of 31 Covid patients the first time, we are already at 101 in a month," said Marc Valette, the head of the intensive care unit of the Pointe-à-Pitre University Hospital.

30 soldiers from the army health service began arriving in Guadeloupe on Saturday.

These reinforcements should make it possible to increase resuscitation capacities by eight additional beds.

Operation # Resilience: a military reinforcement team of around thirty nursing staff will be integrated into the Pointe-à-Pitre CHU from the end of this week in #Guadeloupe.


This reinforcement will increase the reception capacity in intensive care by 8 places.

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- Prefect of Guadeloupe (@ Prefet971) September 26, 2020

Note also that the positivity rate has been above 20% for a week, while it has gone "only" from 5 to 7.2% nationally over the same period.

Again, this is the highest achieved for a department.

About 5,000 tests are performed per week.

Or, compared to the population of around 400,000 inhabitants, a level just a little lower than that for the whole of France.

Closing of bars and restaurants this Sunday evening

This is why the department is found in scarlet red on the epidemic map.

Automatically, this triggers a battery of very strict measures, which the prefect detailed in a press release published on Sunday.

Since Saturday, gatherings of more than 10 people have been prohibited, while access to the beaches is limited to certain time slots.

As in Marseille, the closing of bars and restaurants has been postponed to this Sunday evening at 10 p.m.

If these establishments can no longer accommodate customers, they will still be able to maintain several activities, including take-out and meal delivery.

What many restaurateurs were asking for in order to limit the impact on their activity.

“We had barely stood up, it's demoralizing!

», One of them told France Antilles.

Gyms and other covered sports establishments must also close, except for school groups, extracurricular groups and for high-level athletes.

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Less virulent than in Marseille and Aix-en-Provence, several local elected officials denounced "measures taken without consultation", in the words of the president of the region, Ary Chalus, at the microphone of the channel La 1ère.

That of the departmental council, Josette Borel-Lincertin, pleads for its part to allow bars and restaurants to remain open until 10 p.m. (as is already the case for part of the week since mid-September), rather than to force them to close completely.

I hear the response of @ Prefet971 on the impossibility of a night curfew in #Guadeloupe outside a state of emergency.

If this legal reservation is well founded, it is because there is unfortunately a lack of flexibility and manifest consistency in the means of acting and reacting.

# COVID19

- J BOREL-LINCERTIN (@JBorelLincertin) September 24, 2020

Recognizing that the situation is worrying, it instead calls for the establishment of a night curfew in order to limit festive gatherings in the street at night.

Which would be impossible to establish outside a state of health emergency.

The elected representative sees there "a lack of flexibility and manifest consistency in the means of acting and reacting".

Source: leparis

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