According to Christian Estrosi, the incidence rate in the Alpes-Maritimes department was 323 per 100,000 on December 27, more than double the national average.
Mayor LR of Nice is campaigning on Monday that the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 begins immediately "and not in eight days".
The LR mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, campaigned on Monday for the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 to begin "immediately" in the Alpes-Maritimes, a department facing a resurgence of the epidemic.
"We want the vaccination campaign [against the Covid-19] to start immediately and not in eight days", declared during a press conference by videoconference the elected official, after a local public health council, a body created by its municipality 15 days ago and which brings together many health stakeholders.
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According to Christian Estrosi, the incidence rate in the Alpes-Maritimes department was 323 per 100,000 on December 27, more than double the national average.
However, he noted that the hospital data, which show 40 people in intensive care and 154 others in conventional hospitalization in the department, reflected "a stabilization situation".
Estrosi requests systematic tests at the airport
Christian Estrosi, who met Sunday with the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, indicated that he would contact him again to also formulate a number of restrictive requests: reciprocity of the quarantine between France and Italy , limitation of travel between the Alpes-Maritimes and the Principality of Monaco where hotels and restaurants remain open, systematization of PCR tests for travelers disembarking at Nice airport.
"The report at the airport is that only travelers from Tunisia are 100% tested. We ask the government to require airlines to test all their passengers, regardless of their origin, or that 'he forbids them to serve Nice if they are not able to do so, "insisted the elected official.
The airport currently registers 120 flights per day compared to 20 two weeks ago.
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Based on data from wastewater, he also assured that he intended to ask the prefect to advance the curfew to 6 or 7 p.m. in neighborhoods where the circulation of the virus is higher than elsewhere.
He also asks the State to strengthen control measures: "I note that the national police are very absent from the device," lamented Christian Estrosi, stressing that the municipal police of Nice had carried out a thousand verbalizations for non- wearing a mask since Friday.