The mask is back.

The Loire-Atlantique prefecture decided this Thursday to make the mask again compulsory in public spaces for 25 municipalities in the department.

This decision comes because of the "observed outbreak of the delta variant", justified the prefect of Region Didier Martin.

The unlucky ones are the ten communes of the agglomeration community around Saint-Nazaire and the fifteen communes of Cap Atlantique (Guérande, La Baule, Le Croisic…).

However, beaches and natural areas such as the Brière marshes are excluded from this obligation.

The prefectural decree filed this Thursday also includes a measure prohibiting the consumption of alcohol on public roads throughout the Loire-Atlantique department.

These provisions will remain in force at least until August 13, he said at a joint press conference with the Regional Health Agency (ARS).

A "two-speed" propagation

In the agglomeration of Saint-Nazaire, the incidence rate amounts to 235 / 100,000 inhabitants and in the municipalities of Cap Atlantique it amounts to 239 / 100,000, said the ARS.

"It is not the entire Loire Atlantique coast that is concerned at this stage by this measure because, as surprising as it may seem, the incidence rates are notably lower" to the south of the estuary, in the sectors of Pornic or Saint-Brévin, explained the prefect.

Regarding the epidemic in Pays de la Loire, Didier Martin explained that the region was "a bit at two speeds", with two coastal departments where "the percentages have increased a lot", Loire-Atlantique and Vendée, and the other departments (Mayenne, Sarthe, Maine-et-Loire) having incidence rates "significantly lower than 100 per 100,000".

On the Atlantic coast, the prefectural authorities of Vendée, Charente-Maritime, Gironde, Landes and Pyrénées-Atlantiques recently issued decrees making the mask compulsory in tourist areas.

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