The agglomeration of Dunkirk will be subject from this weekend to local containment during weekends, from Friday evening to Monday morning, to counter an "alarming" incidence of the Covid-19 epidemic, announced on Wednesday 24 February, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, who had visited the site.
In this agglomeration of 250,000 inhabitants, of whom "one in a hundred falls ill every week", weekend trips will only be possible for certain reasons, and the ten largest shopping centers will no longer operate by "click-and-go". , specified the minister.
Speaking to the press, Olivier Véran said that more than 16,000 additional doses would be sent to Dunkirk where, he added, nearly one in 100 is infected.
The minister reaffirmed that the epidemic situation remained worrying throughout the country and that the next few days would be "crucial" for ten departments.
With AFP and Reuters
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