No local confinement, no closed schools.
The prefect of Moselle, Laurent Touvet, announced this Saturday that schools remained open in this department hard hit by the Covid-19 epidemic.
It will not be the subject of a local containment measure either for the moment, the current measures appearing "to date sufficient".
"There is no general closure of schools" or local "confinement", contrary to what several local elected officials demanded, said the representative of the State.
Measures to combat the spread of the virus "so far appear sufficient", he added.
More screening, accelerated vaccination
Friday, Olivier Véran went urgently to Moselle, after announcing Thursday at a press point that the situation "is more worrying".
300 tests revealed the Brazilian and South African mutations in just a few days, and without cluster identification.
“In recent days, the situation had become incomprehensible, then confided Jean Rottner, president (LR) of the region, also emergency doctor.
The incidence is 400 positive per 100,000 inhabitants, with a sharp increase in young people.
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The spread of these variants is of particular concern to health authorities.
Judged to be more contagious than those circulating in France until now, they are also more resistant to currently available vaccines.
They manage to "bypass immunity" and cause re-infections, recalled the Minister of Health.
Some elected officials, such as the mayor (LR) of Metz François Grosdidier, were in favor of an emergency reconfinement of the department limited in time, with the closure of its schools.
During his trip on Friday, Olivier Véran announced an intensification of screening and reinforced contact-tracing.
He also indicated that 2000 doses of additional vaccines would be delivered to speed up the immunization of the population this weekend.