While the state of health emergency was lifted on Friday, will certain departments be reconfigured? In Mayenne, the situation is worrying: the number of people infected with the coronavirus has increased fourfold in two weeks. The department was declared "in a vulnerable situation" Friday by Public Health France, like Guyana and Mayotte. Mayenne is the only department in mainland France to be classified as such since the end of confinement.
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Jean-Paul Hamon, general practitioner and honorary president of the Federation of doctors of France, sounded the alarm on Saturday at the microphone of Europe 1: "The elementary precaution would have been to temporarily confine Mayenne, the time that people are tested and contact cases are identified and isolated properly. "
"The conditions are met for us to deal with a mini-Mulhouse. There are three analysis laboratories in Mayenne, this is usually a sufficient number in relation to the population of 300,000 inhabitants, but this isn’t is not the case when we have a restart of the epidemic! ", he continues. "There are ten days of delay to test someone symptomatic, the numbers go from 230 to 300 in less than five days and four different homes are spread across the department. I think the government should react more firmly than it is not currently doing so, "he said.
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The Minister of Health Olivier Véran said Friday that such a measure was, for the moment, not envisaged. On Wednesday, the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Pays de la Loire and the prefecture had announced that a new massive screening campaign, on a voluntary basis, was going to be launched in Laval, where four of the six clusters are concentrated .
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In two weeks, the number of new Covid-19 positive cases in the department increased from 54 to 109, then from 109 to 219 between June 30 and July 6.