The authorities renewed the calls for "vigilance" in New Aquitaine - a region in the green zone - after the appearance of two epidemic foci of coronavirus. In Vienna, a cluster has "appeared 2 or 3 days ago in a college" where "professionals had gathered to prepare for the return of May 18," said the director general of the regional health agency ( ARS) from New Aquitaine, Michel Laforcade.
Consequence: the return to school was postponed to May 27 in this establishment, the Gérard-Philipe college in Chauvigny, one of the largest in the department (around 800 students) where four team members tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday and Saturday and nine others, including management and local authority staff, placed in the fortnight, according to the rectorate of Poitiers and the management of the establishment.
A cluster after a funeral
In the Dordogne, an “proven” family cluster was identified, after the organization of funerals at the end of April in the small village of Église-Neuve-de-Vergt, near Périgueux. In this department, the "situation was brought under control in a week" around this outbreak which "should not have any impact on this department", little affected by the epidemic, like the others in this region, underlined Michel Laforcade .
But a few days before the deconfinement, the health agency reiterated its call for "citizen responsibility to ensure the strictest respect for barrier gestures" "Above all, it should not be that in the minds of some people, this deconfinement leads to a relaxation, "insisted Michel Laforcade, the day after the prefect's initial debriefing. "We have to be very very vigilant, life is restarting but not as before," said the representative of the State in the Dordogne, Frédéric Périssat.
"One person will contaminate a very significant number"
"It is really an illustration of what we do not want to experience in the three weeks (...): relaxation, family reunions, children, grandchildren, grandparents, neighbors-neighbors ... We finds himself in his thirties and, at the end of the day, a single person will contaminate a very significant number and behind, it will mobilize a lot of people "in screenings, he denounced.
According to France Bleu Périgord, the ceremony in tribute to the deceased, aged 51, (who did not die from the coronavirus) was held in church according to the rules, without exceeding 20 people. But later, at the cemetery and then at a family gathering, the number of participants would have been greater, according to the radio.
127 people tested, nine positive
A few days later, a relative who had attended the funeral was found positive after a test prescribed on April 30 by a doctor from Vergt. Alerted, the ARS then set in motion the “usual tracking procedure” of contact cases by “concentric circles”: family and professional environment, but also funeral directors and hospital staff at home of the deceased whose wife is a carrier of the virus, detailed Michel Laforcade. In total, nine people, including eight in this family, were positive on the first 103 analyzes completed from the 127 people tested, said the ARS. All isolated, the Covid-positive show little or no symptoms.
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