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Covid-19: Jean Castex regrets a "dramatic" situation overseas

2021-07-29T13:17:42.882Z


Martinique is re-defined for at least three weeks from Friday. Traveling to Agen this Thursday, Jean Castex was alarmed by the "dramatic" health situation in certain overseas territories, in particular because, according to him, too many inhabitants are "resistant to vaccination" . The state of emergency was declared Wednesday evening in Guadeloupe, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy, while in Martinique a new confinement was imposed from Friday 7 p.m. for a


Traveling to Agen this Thursday, Jean Castex was alarmed by the "dramatic" health situation in certain overseas territories, in particular because, according to him, too many inhabitants are "resistant to vaccination" .

The state of emergency was declared Wednesday evening in Guadeloupe, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy, while in Martinique a new confinement was imposed from Friday 7 p.m. for a period of at least three weeks.

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To avoid these health constraints, the Prime Minister repeated that "vaccination is absolutely essential".

In front of the Lot-et-Garonne elected officials at the town hall of Agen, where he also visited a vaccination center and the hospital center, Jean Castex explained that "nothing beats proof by example".

One way to further encourage the French of mainland and overseas to receive their injections.

Particularly critical situation in Martinique, few vaccinations in Guadeloupe

In Martinique, the territory went from 2,241 positive cases last week to 3,537 cases, according to the prefecture, and the upward trend is confirmed with 1,100 positive cases already recorded on Monday and Tuesday. The incidence rate fell from 280 cases to 995 per 100,000 inhabitants. "Curbing the virus appears all the more urgent as the population of Martinique is less immune, generally older, and therefore more fragile, than those in regions where Covid-19 has circulated more and where the vaccination rate is higher", underlined the prefecture.

Government spokesman Gabriel Attal also warned of the low number of vaccinated in Guadeloupe, where "only 15% of the population is fully vaccinated".

The Regional Health Agency warned of the "dazzling" progression of contaminations in the department, where the number of confirmed cases from July 19 to 25 rose to 1072, against 281 the previous week.

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To convince the population to make the choice of vaccination, the government is playing the comparison card: "I would like to have a thought for all those countries in the world which would dream of being vaccinated but which do not have access to it and where the pandemic is wreaking havoc.

It should also call us to a form of humility and solidarity.

They do not have the means and if they demonstrate it is not to say no to the vaccine, believe me, ”said Jean Castex from Agen.

"We were not at the rendezvous of the vaccine race"

The Prime Minister

also recognized the delay of France in the race for the anti-Covid vaccine.

“We were not at the rendezvous of the vaccine race, he regretted.

I am like my fellow citizens, I experienced the Sanofi-Pasteur affair as a trauma, ”said Jean Castex.

The head of government, however, did not spare the "antivax" in his speech in Agen. "Pasteur is already quite annoyed, no doubt, by those who consider vaccination to be a danger, he must turn around in his grave," he said again.

Source: leparis

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