Curfews and local confinements again in Guadeloupe?
The government introduced during the debates in the Assembly, a new amendment to the health bill which must be adopted in the coming days.
This aims "to reinstate the state of health emergency in Guadeloupe in the face of the extremely rapid deterioration of the situation in the territory" where the Covid-19 is spreading, Secretary of State Adrien Taquet announced to the Senate on Wednesday. .
"Until the promulgation of the law" in August, "the government plans to issue a decree that would allow the earlier establishment of this state of emergency," he said during the question-and-answer session. government.
This decree must be taken by the Council of Ministers, the next of which is to be held on Wednesday July 28.
26% of inhabitants fully vaccinated
In Guadeloupe, the incidence is 81 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and the number of positive cases last week increased by 61% compared to the previous one. But the government is above all alerted by the "vaccination deficit" in this territory, which could lead to a rapid congestion of health services. "The vaccination coverage rate of the population is only 26%", pointed out Adrien Taquet, pleading for "to develop strategies" to go towards "by relying in particular on local communities".
Adrien Taquet has more generally qualified as "worrying" the situation in the Outremers, while the state of health emergency has already been reinstated in Martinique and Reunion.
This exceptional regime makes it possible in particular to limit the movement of people, or even to order local re-containment in the event of overly active circulation of the virus.
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