At the end of an extraordinary cabinet meeting on Wednesday, government spokesperson Gabriel Attal announced a series of new measures to combat the coronavirus epidemic.

In particular, strict confinement will be applied in Guadeloupe and tests without prescription will no longer be reimbursed from mid-October.

The government spokesman, Gabriel Attal, took stock of the health situation at the end of a Health Defense Council and a Council of Ministers, Wednesday noon.

New measures will thus enter at the local and national levels to try to curb the spread of the coronavirus epidemic.

Strict containment in Guadeloupe

"It is a vital necessity": Wednesday afternoon, Gabriel Attal confirmed the reinstatement of strict confinement in Guadeloupe.

On the island, the health situation has deteriorated sharply, to the point of presenting incidence rates never seen before.

Non-prescription paying tests from mid-October

Covid-19 screening tests without a medical prescription will be chargeable from "mid-October", said Gabriel Attal.

"We have decided to mark the end of free tests outside medical prescription", he explained, in accordance with "the announcement made by the President of the Republic in his speech of July 12" and " to the choices made by a certain number of our European neighbors ".

"The repeated tests do not prevent going to the hospital and heavily contaminating. By mid-October, everyone will have had time to organize themselves and take their responsibilities, we are also taking our own", he added.

The compulsory health pass in some shopping centers

The government has also asked the prefects to make the health pass compulsory in shopping centers of more than 20,000 m2, in departments where the incidence rate exceeds 200 per 100,000. In addition, in these departments, the prefects must restore the wearing of compulsory masks indoors in places open to the public, added the government spokesman, decisions taken on Wednesday in the Defense Council to try to "slow down four irons "the Covid-19 epidemic.