Dunkirk (AFP)
The agglomeration of Dunkirk will be subject from this weekend to local containment during the weekends, from Friday evening to Monday morning, to counter an "alarming" incidence of the Covid-19 epidemic, announced on Wednesday. the Minister of Health Olivier Véran.
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 only operate in + click-and-carry + ", specified the minister.
These measures, decided after consultation with the local elected officials who approved them, are justified by the epidemic situation "very worrying, alarming even" in Dunkirk, where the incidence rate of the disease is "double what it was. at the height of the first and second waves ", justified the minister.
Local hospitals are saturated, to the point that it is now necessary "to transfer patients to other hospitals in the region, and tomorrow, it is likely", elsewhere in France, he added.
The mayor (DVG) of Dunkirk, Patrice Vergriete, said he “understood” the government's decision.
"We wanted to give prevention a chance, but the general situation is more difficult, the population must understand that," he explained.
"The hospital is saturated, the nursing staff exhausted. Now I am waiting for the Dunkirk people to respect the decisions," he added.
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