VIDEO. United States: Miami declares a state of emergency in the face of overflows by "spring breakers"

The unmissable event for American students who came to celebrate spring under the Florida sun, Spring Break was full this year, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Over the weekend, 1.3 million tourists converged on the beaches of the Sunshine State, largely to party.

“The volume of people is clearly higher than in previous years,” noted Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber.

“I think it's partly because there aren't many places open in the rest of the country, or it's very cold there.

Or they are closed and in addition it is very cold there.

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Day or night, the bars and restaurants of Ocean Drive - Miami's popular avenue - welcome revelers.

"We see in the photos of people crowded together, without a mask, without a physical distance," lamented Cindy Prins, an epidemiologist at the University of Florida.

“It just creates an unfortunately ideal situation for the transmission of Covid-19.

To cope with the concentration of tourists, an emergency curfew was imposed between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m.

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With more than 540,000 deaths linked to Covid-19, the United States remains the most bereaved country in the world.

In 100 days, more than 100 million doses of vaccine against the virus have been injected in this country of 328 million people and about 12% of the people of Florida have already been inoculated.

By the end of May, the United States will have received enough doses to cover the entire adult population.