Overseas territories are no exception to the strengthening of health restrictions in the face of the resumption of the Covid-29 epidemic.
Jean Castex announced Thursday, January 14 new measures for Guyana, Mayotte and Reunion.
These territories are threatened by the variants of the coronavirus, identified in South Africa and the Amazon.
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In Guyana, epidemic resumption and threat of the Amazon variant
"
Guyana and through it the West Indies must be protected as much as possible from the
risky variant which circulates in the Amazon,
" said Jean Castex during his press conference, specifying that it will be up to the prefects to take "
appropriate
restrictive measures"
to
local
circumstances
”.
To protect themselves from this Amazonian variant, "
border control will be reinforced and negative tests will be required to reach the Antilles and the metropolis
", announced the Prime Minister.
It will also protect against those who "
seek to escape the braking measures on our territory and who will taste the authorized carnival of Suriname or Brazil
", explained earlier in the day the Minister for Overseas, Sébastien Lecornu.
The latter also announced Thursday on Outre-mer La 1ère, a differentiation of the curfew into two zones, and "
a stricter curfew on Sunday
", because of the epidemic resumption.
Because in Guyana, the situation is deteriorating.
According to the latest ARS Guyana bulletin, dated January 7, the territory has recorded 75 new daily cases on average in recent days, and its incidence rate has fallen from 134 to 181 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, and 400 cases per 100,000. inhabitants of Cayenne.
"
We are once again in a resumption of the epidemic which is very worrying in Guyana and against which we must react very, very quickly
", summarized Thursday, January 14 on Outre-mer La 1ère, Sébastien Lecornu.
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In Mayotte and Reunion, the proximity of the South African variant
In the Indian Ocean, a double test on departure and arrival is now required in Mayotte and Reunion, in order to "
reduce cross-border flows and protect against the risks of the spread of variant strains
", indicated the Prime Minister. .
Because Reunion Island and Mayotte suffer from their proximity to the Comoros.
"
Concerning information indicates that the variant at risk from South Africa is already disseminated in the Comoros
"
,
warned Jean Castex during his press conference.
Tests have been carried out on people arriving from the Comoros by the WHO and the Mayotte Regional Health Agency (ARS) to find out more, but the results are not yet known.
According to Sébastien Lecornu, there is a
"threat of seeing the variant arrive on our territory
", and it is for this reason that the restrictions have been tightened.
"
These are not measures based on the incidence rate, it is the novelty, but to guard against the penetration of the 501 variant, called" South African "
", he specified.
To date, two clusters of the South African variant have been identified on French territory.