Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Thursday that the health situation was "dramatic" in some overseas territories.
According to him, this is explained by too many inhabitants "resistant to vaccination" against Covid-19.
"Vaccination is absolutely essential," he said.
Jean Castex was alarmed Thursday in Agen about the "dramatic" health situation in certain overseas territories because too many inhabitants there are, according to him, "resistant to vaccination" against Covid-19.
"Vaccination is absolutely essential", reaffirmed the Prime Minister in front of elected officials of Lot-et-Garonne at the town hall of Agen, where he also visited a vaccination center and the hospital center.
"Nothing beats proof by example", he added, recalling that, on his proposal, the government had declared the day before "a state of health emergency in a number of overseas territories. - sea where the situation is dramatic because they are reluctant to vaccination ".
A new confinement imposed in Martinique from Friday 7 p.m.
The state of emergency was declared Wednesday evening in Guadeloupe, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélémy, while in Martinique a new confinement was imposed from Friday 7 p.m. for a period of at least three weeks. Martinique went from 2,241 positive cases last week to 3,537 cases, according to the prefecture, and the upward trend is confirmed with 1,100 positive cases already recorded on the first two days of the week. The incidence rate has dropped from 280 cases to 995 per 100,000 inhabitants. "Curbing the virus appears all the more urgent as the population of Martinique is less immune, generally older, and therefore more fragile, than those in regions where Covid-19 has circulated more and where the vaccination rate is higher", underlined the prefecture.
"In Guadeloupe, only 15% of the population is fully vaccinated," government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday.
The regional health agency warned of the "dazzling" progression of contaminations in the department, where the number of confirmed cases from July 19 to 25 rose to 1,072, against 281 the previous week.
"There is really a clear difference, visible between the populations who get vaccinated and those who do not get vaccinated", also underlined Jean Castex.
"A thought for all these countries in the world who dream of getting vaccinated"
"I would like to have a thought for all these countries in the world who dream of being vaccinated but who do not have access to it and where the pandemic is wreaking havoc. It should also call us to a form of humility and solidarity. They do not have the means and if they demonstrate it is not to say no to the vaccine, believe me, "he added.