Seven new departments in the Covid-19 “active traffic zone”

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Seven new departments have moved into the "active circulation zone" of the Covid-19, or "red zone", bringing to 28 the number of departments where reinforced measures against the virus can be adopted, announced a decree published on Sunday. Official newspaper. 

The North, the Bas-Rhin, the Seine-Maritime, the Côte-d'Or - four departments which have important agglomerations, the metropolis of Lille, Rouen, Le Havre, Strasbourg, Dijon - the two departments of Corsica (Corsica- South and Haute-Corse) and Reunion Island are affected by these new measures.

"Reinforced powers" for the prefects

28 departments, including four overseas, are now classified in this area according to this decree which comes into force "immediately".

Paris and the Bouches-du-Rhône were the first to be classified as “red” from August 14, in view of the intensification of the circulation of the virus.

The transition from a department to an “active virus circulation zone”, also called “red zone”, means that the prefects have “enhanced powers” ​​to take additional measures, depending on “local epidemiological data”.

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