Twenty departments have been placed under "enhanced surveillance" due to increased circulation of the coronavirus epidemic, and may be subject to local containment measures from the weekend of March 6 if the situation continues to deteriorate. degrade, announced Thursday Jean Castex.
The departments concerned cover all the Ile-de-France, the Rhône, the Bouches-du-Rhône, the Nord, the Oise, the Pas-de-Calais, the Somme, the Drôme, the Moselle, the Meurthe-et -Moselle or even Eure-et-Loir, said the Prime Minister during a press conference.
These areas “accumulate unfavorable indicators”, namely an incidence level of around 250 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, a proportion of “greater than 50%”, a hospital pressure “close to the critical threshold” and “viral circulation which starts to accelerate seriously ”.
READ ALSO>
VIDEO.
All about monoclonal antibodies
The head of government therefore asked the prefects of the departments concerned to "initiate consultations with elected officials" to "consider, in all or part of these territories, braking measures similar to those implemented in Nice and Dunkirk".
These two agglomerations are now re-defined on weekends to counter the outbreak of Covid-19.