The summer tourist season had not started so badly in Mayenne. Taking advantage of the renewed interest in French, green and peaceful holidays, the department's hoteliers, campsites and restaurant owners hoped to experience a season almost equivalent to that of last year. But the resurgence of cases of Covid-19 contamination has put a chill on this small rural department of Pays de la Loire. Located on the borders of Brittany and Normandy, Mayenne suddenly found itself in the spotlight. This department, where the virus circulated very little in the spring, exceeded the alert threshold with 50.1 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants detected in seven days. A first in metropolitan France since the end of confinement. Highly publicized, a massive screening plan for the entire population over the age of 10 was launched at the beginning of last week.
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This bad publicity has not been without consequences for local tourism. For ten days, campsites, hotels
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