At the microphone of Europe 1, the LR mayor of Touquet Daniel Fasquelle criticizes the extension of the curfew announced Thursday by Prime Minister Jean Castex.

According to him, the government's policy on the health crisis is "muddled". 

54 departments under curfew from Friday at midnight, without forgetting French Polynesia.

This is the strong announcement made Thursday by Prime Minister Jean Castex to try to stem the circulation of the coronavirus.

Among the territories affected by this extension, Pas-de-Calais and Nord.

A situation that was expected, since at the gates of Lille, the virus is very active: the city of Roubaix has, for example, one of the highest incidence rates in the country, with 1,135 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

LR mayor of Le Touquet, Daniel Fasquelle, criticized on Europe 1 the extension of this curfew, a measure he had demanded a week ago. 

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"I had proposed a curfew a week ago, but the prefect refused"

In Hauts-de-France, the deterioration of the health situation is not generalized and many towns are below the alert threshold.

This is particularly the case with Le Touquet, on the coast, where the curfew risks dealing a severe blow to tourism.

"I had proposed a curfew a week ago, but the prefect had refused," said the microphone of Europe 1 Daniel Fasquelle, mayor LR of Touquet.

"But today, at the request of the government, it will establish a curfew in my town. We lost a week when we have had a large population for several days."

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"The government has driven the townspeople away" from the cities

The councilor regrets "this muddled policy on the part of the government which first took measures for the cities and which now realizes that it has scared the city dwellers who have moved elsewhere". 

In the Hauts-de-France region, the Regional Health Agency (ARS) has asked establishments to create around one hundred resuscitation beds in the next 48 hours by deprogramming care in all hospitals in the metropolis of Lille.

The white plan was also launched there Thursday, shortly before the announcement of the curfew.