Reunion in turn took new restrictive measures against Covid-19 on Friday with the closure, from Tuesday, of bars, restaurants, cultural places and sports halls.
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These "
braking measures
" of the epidemic will remain in force for at least 15 days, said the prefect of the island Jacques Billant during a joint press conference with the Regional Health Agency (ARS).
And "
if in two weeks, the dynamics (of the epidemic) are not on the decline, I will begin the confinement of the territory modeled on that of the metropolis
", warned the representative of the State.
Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday a new turn of the screw in metropolitan France, including the closure of schools for three to four weeks.
The curfew applied every evening in Reunion Island from 6 p.m. to 5 a.m. since March 5 has not reduced the number of contaminations, the figures of which are considered by the authorities to be "
worrying
"
".
The incidence rate, number of contaminations per 100,000 inhabitants, is 120, "
which had never happened,
" said Xavier Deparis, director of monitoring and health security at the ARS.
1025 new positive cases
The island has recorded 1,025 new positive cases in the past seven days and 66.5% of these contaminations come from South African, Brazilian and British variants.
Over the past three weeks, 45 patients have died from Covid-19, bringing to 112 the total number of deaths since the start of the epidemic on March 11, 2020. The occupancy rate of the 122 intensive care beds in La Meeting has "
reached 90% on certain days
", according to Xavier Deparis.
In early March, a first medical evacuation of four patients was organized to the metropolis.
