Four municipalities on Reunion Island will be under curfew from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. from Friday, the prefect announced on Wednesday February 10, reporting a sharp increase in Covid-19 cases.
Between Friday February 5 and Tuesday February 9, 400 new cases of Covid-19 contamination were identified by the authorities.
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The municipalities affected by the curfew, La Possession, Le Port, Saint-Leu, (west of Reunion) and Saint-Louis (south) have incidence rates (number of people infected per 100,000 inhabitants) exceeding 120 Over the whole of the Overseas Department, this rate is 67.2.
It was 40.9 as of January 31.
The national alert threshold is set at 50 per 100,000 inhabitants.
Throughout the island "
within shopping centers,
" of more than 20,000 m2 "
only restaurants, pharmacies and shops mainly offering a food offer can remain open
", said the prefect Jacques Billant.
The shopping malls of three shopping centers are hit by these closures coming into effect from Thursday.
Relatively spared since the start of the pandemic, Reunion Island was not under curfew until now, but the island has been facing an upsurge in contamination cases and the arrival of variants of the coronavirus in recent weeks. .
"
To date, there are 51 cases of Covid-19 variants including 43 of South African strain, 7 British strains and one Brazilian strain
," said the prefecture on Wednesday.
To curb the spread of the virus, since January 28 to come from Metropolitan France and Mayotte or to get there, travelers must justify a compelling reason and a negative PCR test carried out 72 hours before boarding.
Since the start of the epidemic in Reunion in March 2020, 10,049 people have been infected with the virus.
47 patients died from the disease.