The inhabitants of Dunkirk are not at the end of their sentence.
Despite a drop in the incidence rate of almost 25% in Dunkirk (municipalities of the Urban Community of Dunkirk and the Hauts de Flandre Community of Municipalities), the prefecture decided on Tuesday to extend the confinement in force for another three weeks. the weekend, started at the end of February.
The inhabitants will therefore have to stay at home on the weekends of March 13-14, March 20-21 and March 27-28.
"The first effects of the measures deployed are starting to be felt, but the deterioration of the health situation remains the source of tensions" at the hospital, explains the North Prefecture on Twitter.
80 patients are currently being treated because of Covid-19, at the Dunkirk hospital center, and 90 were transferred over a month, notes the prefecture.
🔴⚠️ # COVID19
Extension of the #confinement put in place on #Dunkirk (municipalities of the Urban Community of #Dunkirk and the Hauts de Flandre Community of Municipalities).
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- Prefect of the Hauts-de-France and North region (@ prefet59) March 9, 2021
The incidence rates, although decreasing, remain high: 785 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the urban community of Dunkirk, 687 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the Hauts de Flandre community of municipalities, against 223 nationally.
The maximum alert threshold is 250 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
No decision yet in the Alpes-Maritimes
No decision concerning weekend containment in the Alpes-Maritimes, which entered into force at the same time as in Dunkirk at the end of February, has yet been announced.
The first decree, published at the end of February, fixed the number of confined weekends at only two.