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  • There are now 34 clusters in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, including 24 in Gironde.

  • In a department classified as red, the obligation to wear a mask in markets and around schools is extended to the entire territory.

  • "The hospitalization indices which will increase at a given moment, it is obvious" warns the director of the ARS.

The obligation to wear a mask is still gaining ground.

The two decrees taken last Saturday by the prefecture, relating to the obligation to wear a mask on open markets and less than 50 m from schools in the territory of Bordeaux metropolis, are extended to the entire Gironde department , announced this Monday the prefect Fabienne Buccio.

The obligation around schools comes into force from Monday to Saturday noon.

At the same time, wearing a mask is compulsory throughout the center of Bordeaux since Monday.

"The epidemic is expanding in our region, and if we have the feeling that things are less serious, it is not that the virus has changed, it is simply because the population that is affected at the moment is a young population, explains Fabienne Buccio.

But the older age groups are starting to be affected, children pass it on to their parents, and behind that will follow ... If the spread continues, we can find ourselves in November-December in a situation that we have already experienced at another time of year, with hospitals filling up due to Covid-19 cases.

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"We will monitor very closely the hospitalization indices which will increase at a given moment, it is obvious", announces for his part Daniel Habold, director of public health of the ARS Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

24 clusters in Gironde

To date, “we have identified 34 clusters, including 24 in Gironde: we had never reached that figure.

And the rate of positivity in Gironde has just climbed to 6.5% from 0.1% at the beginning of the summer.

This is doubling every week!

We were the region spared before, this is no longer the case ”, continues Daniel Habold.

#coronavirus: The positivity rate in #Gironde fell from 0.1% at the beginning of the summer, to 6.5% on August 31, announces the prefecture on Monday

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“The idea, in relation to the circulation of the virus which is undeniable especially in Gironde, is not to stop it but to slow it down.

We must resume good habits ”concerning barrier gestures.

No exception to gatherings of 5,000 people

“Half of the cases we have come from private or family celebrations,” insists Fabienne Buccio.

These are cases that we do not see, so we must make people aware that the virus is there and that it is no less dangerous.

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Regarding the gatherings, the prefect specifies that the presidents of the two big clubs called her concerning the gauge of 5,000 spectators.

“From the moment we passed into the red zone, the prefect loses his overriding power, so I cannot authorize an exemption from the 5,000 gauge”, she explains.

Vigilance is particularly in order this re-entry.

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