Holidays and Covid-19 don't mix.
In Haute-Corse, the prefect announced on Monday new restrictive measures to fight against the coronavirus epidemic.
The incidence rate of Covid-19 is 699 per 100,000 inhabitants, or "four times" higher than the national rate, the authorities said.
A ban on gathering more than ten people on beaches and natural spaces after 9 p.m. will be effective from Tuesday, explained the prefect of Haute-Corse, François Ravier at a press conference.
"We have the greatest concerns knowing that during the summer, in general, the hospital system is already under strain because of a population multiplied by three or four," he insisted.
"Return of the mask in dense spaces" in several cities
Specifying to have "excluded at this stage any return of the curfew", the prefect also announced that all festive events such as weddings or birthdays providing for more than 50 people in establishments open to the public will have to "be declared to the prefecture" from August 1.
The name of a person responsible for controlling the health pass must be communicated for each event.
It also extends to the entire department the measures put in place on July 23 in Balagne and St-Florent, in this case the closure of bars and restaurants at midnight, from August 1 and the "return of the mask to spaces. dense ”in Bastia, Corte, Calvi, Ile Rousse, Calenzana and Saint-Florent, from Tuesday.
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