The European Commission recommends limiting all travel to the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region due to a new outbreak of the epidemic.

On site, caregivers are preparing to deprogram operations and fear that the saturation point of hospitals will soon be reached.

As the government tries to reassess health measures to contain the coronavirus epidemic, the figures are panicking in the south-east of France.

And more particularly in two departments: the Alpes-Maritimes and the Var.

In the first, and despite the curfew set at 6 p.m., nine people died in hospitals and 40 in nursing homes.

After a period of calm, more and more patients have contracted the virus.

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The situation is very similar in the Var.

In one week, the department recorded 58 deaths, including 35 in EHPAD.

Three establishments for the elderly are particularly affected in Toulon, Saint-Tropez and Fréjus.

The clusters are also multiplying and 55 people are currently in intensive care in the hospitals of the department.

Half of them are under 65.

"It is stretched"

Romain Alexandre, departmental delegate of the Regional Health Agency, does not hide his concern.

"We are not in a situation of saturation, beds remain available, but it is tense. We will probably, within a few days, carry out some deprogramming to allow us to have medical and paramedical resources to arm more. beds. "

However, it is this crisis scenario, the one that requires choosing between patients, that hospital managers want to avoid at all costs.

Christian Estrosi tightens the screws in Nice

A message heard by the mayor of Nice, who decided to take the bull by the horns.

Christian Estrosi signed a decree to ban seasonal rentals in his city, and thus avoid the massive influx of tourists for the February holidays.

"No one has an interest in what, simply to grab a few days of rental, we take a collective risk by bringing in a large flow of people at risk," he explains to Europe 1. "We communicate today to prevent people from booking. "

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Christian Estrosi is also calling for random PCR tests to be carried out in stations and at the airport.

Finally, he wishes to track down false PCR certificates, this document being now necessary to enter French territory.