The first on the starting line.
Christian Estrosi, the mayor of Nice, intends to make proposals to Olivier Véran, with a view to deconfinement, reports
Nice Matin
.
The city councilor, who met with the Minister of Health on Tuesday, April 20, told him that he wanted his city to be in “
pole position
” for the reopening of restaurants.
“
The corrected figures from Public Health France show us that our incidence rate, 198 / 100,000, is the lowest of the twenty-two metropolitan areas.
There are only four departments of Aquitaine and Brittany where the data are weaker,
”explains the former Minister of Industry.
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According to him, the positive indicators of his city "
are reassuring
".
He believes "
that it would be legitimate
" for Nice to benefit among the first from the territorialized deconfinement envisaged by the government in the first half of May.
“
We also have the most advanced vaccination in France in Metropolitan France.
With 5,000 injections per day, we will pass the 30% mark by the end of the week,
”he argues.
About fifty sample restaurants?
In
Nice Matin
, the city councilor specifies that he will soon send the details of his sanitary protocol to the Minister of Health and proposes "
the reopening of around fifty test restaurants to assess these procedures and measure the impact on the transmission of the disease. virus, with customer follow-up.
"
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These test restaurants would be open in certain pedestrian streets of the city in order to extend the terraces.
In each of them, distancing and cleaning rules would be put in place.
Self-tests would be distributed and their use would be mandatory.
Territorialized deconfinement
By making this proposal, Christian Estrosi wishes to be part of the territorialized management of the epidemic desired by the government. In an interview with the newspaper
Le Télégramme
, Tuesday, April 20, the Minister of Health actually affirmed that he was "
open to the idea of a territory-by-territory approach in the lifting of braking measures
" as there was already "
favorable during their installation
”.
On April 7, the president of the Brittany region, Loïg Chesnais-Girard, already requested the Minister of Health by sending him “
a service offer
” for his region “
less affected by the Covid-19 pandemic
”. He spoke of his desire for Brittany to trace “
an effective path for the deconfinement of all of France
” by experimenting with “
specific protocols
”.