"The situation continues to worsen," according to Gabriel Attal.
The government spokesperson spoke at the end of the last Council of Ministers of the summer.
“The map of France is almost entirely red and only seven departments are below the alert threshold,” he said.
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The new law on anti-Covid measures, including the health pass extended to restaurants, bars, transport, etc., will come into force on August 9.
"The Constitutional Council indicated that it would render its decision on August 5, the law will therefore be promulgated immediately, with an entry into force that we plan for August 9," said Gabriel Attal, assuring that he There would be "a time to adapt and break in".
State of health emergency Overseas
The spokesperson also announced that Guadeloupe, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy were going under a state of health emergency, in order to "protect the hospital which could quickly find itself under high tension in territories where there is a very low vaccination coverage ”.
Gabriel Attal spoke of a "worrying" situation in these overseas territories, where the incidence rate sometimes reaches 1,700 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
"In Guadeloupe, only 15% of the population is fully vaccinated", while in Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy, "the incidence rate reaches 1,714 cases per 100,000 inhabitants", he explains.
This exceptional regime makes it possible in particular to limit the movement of people, or even to order local re-containment in the event of overly active circulation of the virus.
The state of health emergency had already been reinstated in Reunion Island and Martinique. In this department of the West Indies, the government spokesperson described a "very difficult situation, where we deployed the army health service to accommodate as much as possible the patients in good conditions in the hospital".
