Olivier Véran during his visit to Moselle on Friday.

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The Minister of Health Olivier Véran announced Friday in Metz a strengthening of the testing and vaccination policy in Moselle, a department which has a higher incidence of the coronavirus than in the rest of the territory, in particular with a progression of the South African variant .

"Any positive case of coronavirus will now be considered in this department as suspect of a variant until proved to the contrary, that is to say, it will benefit from immediate contact tracing, from accompanied sheltering immediate isolation increased to ten days against seven, ”said Olivier Véran during a trip to Moselle.

A PCR test will be carried out before the lifting of isolation for positive cases and a PCR test will be carried out from the first day on all possible contact cases, he added after a meeting with elected officials. mosellans.

"The Moselle will benefit for this from the help of the team of the ministry and the other" regional health agencies (ARS), underlined the minister, whereas the first analyzes on the positive cases "tend to prove the hypothesis that 'these are indeed variants of South African origin'.

The current estimate relates to more than 100 cases per day in Moselle, detailed Olivier Véran, who also went to the ARS in Metz.

Local elected officials want more

In Moselle, “75% of the elderly” in nursing homes have already received at least one dose of vaccine to date, said the minister who, “at the request of local elected officials”, still wants to “strengthen” the vaccination policy in the Department.

"2,000 doses of Moderna vaccine could be made available to the population, in particular people aged 75 and over in the coming days."

This announcement, as well as the “increase in the number of doses of Pfizer vaccines starting next week”.

For the other measures requested by elected officials, it will be necessary to wait for the continuation of the consultations, warned Olivier Véran.

"Several proposals have been made" without consensus, such as immediate local containment or early school closures, he reported.

The LR mayor of Metz François Grosdidier, who pleads for "short-term confinement" and "the closure of schools", said he was disappointed at the lack of an immediate decision: "There is a real explosion (of incidence ) in young people aged 10 to 20.

I do hope that they will decide to advance (the closing of schools) by a week.

We would have liked to have this decision now to prepare ”.

According to Professor Benoit Gallix, director of the University Hospital Institute (IHU) of Strasbourg and scientific coordinator of the regional platform for monitoring the evolution of the epidemic "Predict'Est", the trajectory in Moselle is "different" the rest of the Grand-Est "for two weeks", with a "greater impact" on young people.

"Among 10-19 year olds in particular, we are much higher than the average, with a weekly incidence" of 368, "while the average incidence (all age groups in the department) is 290", a he indicated.

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