Two first cases of people testing positive for the Delta variant of Covid-19 were recorded in Mayotte, Dominique Voynet, director of the Regional Health Agency, announced Thursday, July 29.
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It is about a man from metropolitan France and a pregnant woman living in Mayotte.
The first had tested negative before taking the plane.
The two patients were placed in solitary confinement, as were the people who came into contact with them.
While contaminations explode in the West Indies, where containment has been restored in Martinique, Mayotte in the Indian Ocean is the French territory least affected by Covid-19, with an incidence rate of 3.6 per 100,000 inhabitants .
But the speed of spread of the Delta variant, the high proportion of unvaccinated people (17.8% with one dose and 12.5% with two doses on July 8, 2021 according to Public Health France), and the lack of resuscitation beds (only 17 for an official population of 256,000 inhabitants) raise fears of an outbreak, as was the case at the beginning of the year 2021, after the Christmas holidays when the incidence rate had risen to 900 per 100,000 inhabitants. The ARS plans to strengthen the compelling reasons for unvaccinated people who come to Mayotte, especially from Reunion.
