The first local measures are being implemented in the territories where the circulation of the coronavirus is most active.

Having called for local containment for his city at the end of 2020, the mayor of Nancy Mathieu Klein denounced the restrictions in force in Dunkirk and Nice as half-measures.

He was the guest of Europe 1 on Saturday.

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In Lorraine, Moselle and Meurthe-et-Moselle are among the departments with maximum vigilance.

On the model of the Alpes-Maritimes or the Dunkirk region, these departments could have to re-define themselves if the Covid-19 epidemic worsens further.

At the end of 2020, the mayor of Nancy, Mathieu Klein, called for local confinement, noting the surge in new cases in his city.

If the situation has improved somewhat since then, he protests against local confinements which according to him only have the name: "I have a little reluctance to speak of a confinement when we talk about weekend, to me it's actually an extension of the curfew. "

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"We must give clear perspectives"

If the city council concedes that this measure has slowed down the epidemic, he says that it has in no way been effective in stemming it.

"At the hospital, if the situation may have experienced a slight decline in Nancy a week ago, we are already seeing the indicators start to rise again, still at a high level," he laments.

According to him, the time is no longer for half-measures: the curfew has not generated the expected results, we must resign ourselves to “complete” confinement wherever necessary.

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Mathieu Klein evokes an incidence rate of 180 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in his city.

He claims that crossing a threshold of 250 or 300 cases would encourage him to call again for local containment.

"We must give clear perspectives", he asserts.

"At the same time, we are accelerating the vaccination campaign. One cannot go without the other."

The mayor of Nancy cites as an example the good results obtained in those over 75 years of age thanks to vaccination: this would already prevent the virus from circulating within this age group.