In Nice, Estrosi threatens to set up "a reconfinement on the weekend"

Control of the municipal police during the curfew, Place Masséna in Nice, October 24, 2020 -

The mayor of Nice bangs his fist on the table.

And threatens to tighten the screw a little more against the Covid-19, beyond the curfew established in the Alpes-Maritimes, since Saturday.

"If in eight days, we do not return below an incidence rate of 150 [the number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants], I would propose additional measures and in particular the implementation of economic and total reconfinement. the weekend ”, announced Christian Estrosi on Monday.

“I would ask the prefect to close certain non-essential businesses.

And I would also close some sports and cultural establishments in the city.

The markets would also be more regulated, ”said the city councilor.

"I will not let our health system explode"

Nice has an incidence rate of 166, well below the figures recorded in certain other large cities in France, in particular Lyon or Saint-Etienne, but the evolution of the virus is "alarming", points out Christian Estrosi.

"I will not let our health system explode", he blurted out, specifying that the Nice University Hospital only had two beds in the Covid unit.

Before taking these possible new "restrictive and very strong measures" which will depend "on the effort that the people of Nice will agree to make again", the mayor also announced that, "from this Monday evening, 50% of the staff of the metropolis and the city of Nice were placed in telework ”.

“And I call on all other institutions to implement the same practice to free up space in public transport,” he said.

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