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Covid-19: in the West Indies, hospitals overwhelmed by the epidemic

2021-08-10T18:12:37.319Z


STORY - The prefect of Martinique has announced a strict re-containment, and Guadeloupe fears the same fate.


In Pointe-à-Pitre

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Since Monday evening, the rumor has swelled in Guadeloupe: like Martinique, strict confinement is approaching.

In the sister island, which has, according to the authorities and medical staff of the Pointe-à-Pitre University Hospital,

"fifteen days ahead of the epidemic in Guadeloupe"

, the prefect Stanislas Cazelles has decreed a strengthening of measures to fight against the spread of the virus.

Martinicans are resuming, for three weeks, a movement limited to 1 kilometer, the closure of non-essential businesses, etc.

Hotels must close and tourists are encouraged to return home, putting a stop to tourism activity already damaged by the epidemic for eighteen months.

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From these announcements, the social networks of Guadeloupe, WhatsApp groups in the lead, began to rustle a possible application of these measures on the island.

To the point that some hotels have planned to close on Wednesday.

A rumor of confinement that came to strengthen the balance sheet

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Source: lefigaro

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