In Toulouse, the day of deconfinement, May 11.

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  • Even if the indicators are down, the circulation of the virus in Haute-Garonne remains well above the alert thresholds.

  • The prefect calls for caution for this weekend and warns that the gauges will be very controlled, especially in supermarkets.

  • He also advises to favor local shops.

Are you stamping?

Are you in need of window shopping and planning to rush to the nearest shopping arcade this Saturday to celebrate the easing of the confinement?

Arm yourself as a patient then because chances are you'll be lining up outside.

"The health concern remains absolutely decisive and travel remains derogatory", insists the prefect Etienne Guyot.

He recalls that the new sanitary protocol provides for an area of ​​8 m2 per customer and that, in supermarkets in particular, metering must be carried out at the entrance.

"It is a message that I send very clearly, it will be controlled very closely," warns the representative of the State.

It provides moreover, without detailing it, an "important" police device.

Still nearly 80 cases per 100,000 inhabitants

Etienne Guyot also invites the inhabitants "to favor local shops".

“Because,” he said, “it will prevent travel and they need it”.

In addition, it is better to spread out since Sunday opening and late until 9 p.m. is possible in all stores that wish.

The idea for the authorities is to control this first breathing in the confinement, which will condition the date of the other planned stages.

Because if the curves of the circulation of the virus are largely reversed and "if the epidemic peak is behind us, (...) we remain very, very above warning thresholds", underlines Jean-Jacques Morfoisse, the deputy director of the Regional Health Agency (ARS).

In Haute-Garonne, the incidence rate is now 77.9 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (for an alert threshold of 50), 64.5 cases for those over 60, and the test positivity rate is has fallen below the 10% mark. 77 Covid-19 patients are still in intensive care, even if the hospital wave is ebbing.

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