The Mahorais are sorry: their archipelago is experiencing the longest confinement in France.
Put under cover on February 5 by the government - three weeks before the measures targeting the coast of the Alpes-Maritimes and the agglomeration of Dunkirk (North) -, the inhabitants of Mayotte saw their confinement on Thursday extended by at least two weeks.
Unique case in a French department, schools remain closed.
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Faced with the spread of the South African variant in the Indian Ocean archipelago, the authorities note that the three weeks of house arrest were not enough.
The proportion of cases has stopped increasing, but it remains at a very high level (725 cases per 100,000 inhabitants as of February 26, almost four times the national average).
"The measures have shown their effectiveness, but the pressure in the hospital remains strong,"
notes Dominique Voynet, ex-candidate of the Greens for the presidential election today at the head of the regional health agency (ARS) of the archipelago.
The only hospital in Mayotte
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