• On Sunday, the number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the Alpes-Maritimes stood at 174, far behind the national average (314) and the alert threshold established by the government (250).

  • Elected officials demand in particular "the immediate reopening of local shops with respect for barrier measures" and ask for a reopening of the terraces "from the beginning of May".

The start of the school year on Monday, an end of daytime travel limits on May 3 and the gradual reopening of shops and places of culture "mid-May" without further details.

The plan to lift the restrictions planned by the Prime Minister does not go quickly enough to the taste of elected officials of the Alpes-Maritimes given "the improvement of the epidemiological situation" on the Covid-19 front.

They are calling for "early and progressive deconfinement".

What the numbers say

Remaining several long weeks at the head of the departments most affected by the coronavirus in metropolitan France, the Alpes-Maritimes are now largely outdated.

Sunday, according to the latest figures from Public Health France, the incidence rate (the number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants) stood at 174, far behind the national average (314) and the alert threshold established by the government ( 250).

The same indicator had risen to 642 on February 24 in the department.

At the same time, hospital pressure is also on the decline.

The number of patients treated in intensive care has almost halved in one month, from 136 (a record) on March 26 to 71 on Sunday.

Shops, curfews, terraces ... What the elected officials offer

Faced with these indicators, all the presidents of the agglomeration communities and of the Nice metropolis as well as the president of the department joined forces at the end of last week. They demand "an early and progressive deconfinement of our territory which was one of the first to undergo the containment measures".

They demand among other things "the immediate reopening of local shops with respect for barrier measures" and the "removal of the curfew".

Regarding bars, hotels and restaurants, they are campaigning for a reopening of the terraces "from the beginning of May".

For museums, theaters and sports halls, access should be possible "on presentation of a vaccination certificate or a PCR test of less than 72 hours" and with suitable gauges.

They also ask for the “widening of the public eligible for vaccination” which, in fact, already applies in several municipalities.

This Monday, the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes informed the LR mayor of Antibes Jean Léonetti that the request of elected officials had been addressed to the minister.

No more news for the moment.

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