The prefect of Moselle, Laurent Touvet, announced Saturday at a press conference that schools would remain open in Moselle.
The department, hard hit by the Covid-19 epidemic, will also not be subject to a local containment measure for the moment, the current measures appearing "
to date sufficient
" he assured .
During a meeting with elected officials Thursday, the latter had demanded, for some, an early closure of schools, which must begin their vacation on February 20.
A request reiterated on Saturday morning on France Info by the mayor of Thionville.
There will be no new restrictive measure "
in Moselle at this stage
", replied the prefect.
The measures to combat the spread of the virus "
appear to date sufficient
", he added, while his department is experiencing a higher incidence than the rest of the territory, in particular with an increase in the Brazilian and South African variants. .
On Friday, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran visited the site, announcing the arrival of 2,000 doses of vaccine which should be administered Saturday and Sunday in hospitals that remained open.
