Faced with the virus, Corsican elected officials want to impose their strategy

Growing unemployment, an impoverishing population is no longer cured and economic activity stalled. According to INSEE, Corsica is one of the areas most affected by confinement, with a fall of 35% in economic activities, linked to "the significant weight in the regional added value of the sectors most affected (trade, transport, accommodation, catering and public works) ” . Nearly 66% of private companies have resorted to partial unemployment, or 7 employees out of 10. A blackboard that worries the public authorities.

During a press briefing, Franck Robine, the prefect of Corsica, had made an alarming observation: "Containment has a human, social, health and economic cost which has become unbearable." According to the regional health agency (ARS), "the virus hardly circulates any more on the island" . The last point reports only four new positive cases, for a total of 67 deaths since the start of the epidemic. But with 29% of its population having

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