Coronavirus: protesters destroy a screening center in Abidjan

Ivorian police face the neighborhood of Yopougon demonstrating against a coronavirus screening center in Abidjan, April 6, 2020. AFP Photos / Issouf Sanogo

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Protesters destroyed Sunday April 5 in the evening a marquee erected to screen patients of Covid-19 in the district "Red Roofs" of the vast Abidjan commune of Yopougon. These demonstrators thought it was a care center for the sick and did not want it in their vicinity. Protests resumed on Monday morning.

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Tires burnt in the face of tear gas canister grenades by the police. The demonstrations of anger resumed in the early morning on Monday, to refuse the installation of this center perceived by the population as a center for the treatment of the sick on a sports field in this residential area of ​​the popular commune of Yopougon. " It is not a treatment center " was assured again this morning at the Ministry of Health, but a voluntary collection center, that is to say, screening.

Three care sites in Abidjan

The prefect of Abidjan Vincent Toh Bi Irié went to the scene this Monday morning to try to reassure the populations and explain that many centers of this type were deployed throughout the Ivorian economic capital.

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In Abidjan, three sites will be dedicated to caring for the sick. In addition to the Treichville teaching hospital at the front line since the start of the epidemic, 160 beds are being installed in a prefabricated structure at the Yopougon teaching hospital and 140 beds at the Anyama hospital.

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