Coronavirus: The mayor of Dunkirk requests an "emergency examination" of the situation in his territory from the government (Illustration, Malo-les-Bains) -

M.Libert / 20 Minutes

A partial reconfinement was decided on Monday on the coast of the Alpes-Maritimes.

What about the north of France?

Well, the mayor of Dunkirk, Patrice Vergriete, on Monday asked for an interview with Prime Minister Jean Castex to "urgently examine" the situation in his city, where the Covid-19 epidemic is soaring with an incidence rate of 901 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the agglomeration.

"The epidemic situation (...) has continued to deteriorate today, with an incidence rate of 901 cases per 100,000 inhabitants communicated this evening by the Regional Health Agency - measured within the urban community of Dunkirk (CUD) - and an ever increasing rate of cases of English variants, ”warned the mayor DVG and president of the CUD in a press release Monday evening.

Dunkirk today deserves all the attention of the State

“Ten days ago, with all the mayors of the CUD, faced with the acceleration of the epidemic, we proposed to the State a series of preventive measures which seemed to us adapted to the situation in our territory ( …) Ten days ago, our appeal was not heard… ”, he regrets.

“This evening, I ask to speak urgently with the Prime Minister to examine the health situation of our territory.

Dunkirk today deserves all the attention of the State, in the same way as the agglomeration of Nice and the Alpes-Maritimes ”, concludes the city council, a few hours after the announcement by the authorities of this department of a new local reconfinement on weekends on the coast.

In the metropolis of Nice, the incidence rate is 700 positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

On February 12, the mayors of the CUD had notably asked the authorities to close middle and high schools a week before the school holidays, measures which had not been retained by the authorities.

The incidence rate there reached 485 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and has almost doubled since.

"Permanent monitoring" of the situation, assures the prefecture

"Unlike ten days ago, Patrice Vergriete does not request a series of precise measures, he wants to know what the state plans to do", said a source within the town hall, specifying that the mayor had "never" at this stage requested a local re-containment.

No contact has been established between the town hall and Jean Castex, or the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, since the "middle of last week", the same source added.

"The situation in the territory is the subject of permanent monitoring and the measures may be reassessed according to the evolution of the epidemic", had for its part indicated the prefecture of the North, before the appeal of the mayor.

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