For the past week, Mayotte has faced a conflagration of the epidemic. Face "Additional resources" will be sent to Mayotte, including a field hospital and additional staff, announced Friday the Minister of Overseas Annick Girardin during a Facebook Live channel on Overseas the 1st.

Friday May 8, Mayotte had 890 reported cases, 11 deaths, 35 people hospitalized (including 9 in intensive care), but the territory, where 82% of the population lives below the poverty line, is weakened by a poor health supply.

The overseas department of the Indian Ocean, where "the virus is actively circulating", in the words of Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, will not be unfinished from May 11. It is the only French territory in this situation.

"We are the French department that may be facing an epidemic conflagration," said ARS director Mayotte Dominique Voynet this week, during a press briefing with some national media. "We need personnel and equipment", she had acknowledged, referring to the arrival "around May 15" of one of the "hospital modules" of the army health service, which had been mobilized in the Haut-Rhin.

Daily evacuations to Reunion

Dominique Voynet also pointed out that medical evacuations of Covid and non-Covid patients take place "every day" to Reunion, to increase the capacity of hospital beds, more in medicine than in intensive care, because there are "very few serious cases ".

"We are the French department which may be facing an epidemic conflagration", she continued, while the deconfinement is already "de facto" according to her, especially since the start of Ramadan.

For his part, the deputy LR of Mayotte Mansour Kamardine considers that the containment was "necessary" but that he "participated in potentiating progressively the humanitarian, security, economic and therefore ultimately social" difficulties of the territory.

Noting that "the fragile Mahoran economy is on the ground, on the brink of collapse", and that "half of the population of Mayotte was not able to respect confinement and will not be more tomorrow, given precarious living conditions ", he calls for the deconfinement of Mayotte" next week ".

With AFP

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