Toulouse and sixteen towns in the Toulouse metropolitan area are undergoing -

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  • In a reinforced alert zone for the past two weeks, Toulouse and sixteen towns in the agglomeration are moving into a reinforced alert zone this Sunday.

  • New measures are being taken with this change, in particular the closure of bars from Tuesday.

  • According to our information, other communes of Haute-Garonne, located in intercommunalities of Sicoval, Muretain and Save-au-Touch pass into reinforced alert zone.

Thursday evening, Olivier Véran had warned that Toulouse was on probation.

The ax fell this Sunday evening due to the unfavorable situation concerning the circulation of Covid-19 in the Toulouse metropolitan area.

The prefect of Haute-Garonne, who had urgently organized this Sunday at the end of the day a meeting with the mayors of the municipalities concerned, told them that Toulouse and the sixteen municipalities which had been in "alert zone since September 25" reinforced ”are now classified in“ maximum alert zone ”according to a concerned mayor contacted by

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This decision follows poor results in the face of the epidemic.

Like Grenoble or Lille, the incidence rate within the Pink City now exceeds 250 new positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

Last Friday, there were still 233.6 positive cases for the Toulouse metropolis, according to the Haute-Garonne prefecture, with a rate of 117.5 per 100,000 for people over 65 years old.

Other municipalities in enhanced alert zones

If Saturday at the Toulouse University Hospital, 16 of the 83 intensive care beds were occupied by cases of Covid-19, according to the prefecture, on Friday the fateful threshold of 30% was not far from being reached in Occitania.

This change of status induces new restrictions for two weeks from this Tuesday.

As in Saint-Etienne, the bars will close, as will the casinos, gaming rooms, exhibition spaces as well as party rooms and multipurpose rooms.

This concerns Toulouse but also the sixteen municipalities of its periphery subjected since September 25 to the first restrictions.

A decision that professionals in the sector had feared for several days.

A reinforced health protocol will be put in place in restaurants, which will have to keep a reservation book to know their customers, or in shopping centers whose reception capacity should be limited.

Other communes of Haute-Garonne, located in the territory of Sicoval, of the community of communes of Sava au Touch or even Muretain will also experience restrictions by going into enhanced alert zones, according to our information.

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Apart from Toulouse, sixteen municipalities are affected by the new restrictions.

These are Tournefeuille, Blagnac, Colomiers, Quint-Fonsegrives, Cugnaux, Balma, Saint-Orens, Labège, Castanet, L'Union, Plaisance-du-Touch, Portet-sur-Garonne, Ramonville, Auzeville, Aucamville, Launaguet and Ramonville.

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