“The situation is not good. And she is even becoming a critic every day in Moselle-Nord. Jean-Christophe Hamelin Boyer, in charge of health for the Portes de France-Thionville agglomeration, reveals worrying figures of contamination in the territory. The incidence rate remains in balance, this Friday, February 12, stagnating around 8% positivity. More worrying: the share of variants which culminates, on these positive cases, at 29% from the British strain and 23% for the South African form. Put more simply: “One positive screening for covid out of two results in a variant”, summarizes Pierre Cuny.
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“Affected employees”
The president of the agglomeration felt, “these last 72 hours”, the pulse of contaminations get carried away: “The acceleration is very sensitive. In my own teams, I have collaborators suffering from these variants. We have to take quick action. “The mayor of Thionville wants, from Monday, the closure of all schools:” Every day, new cases affect schools, “notes the elected. Latest episode to date: the detection of two positive cases with the South African variant at the origin, this Friday, of the isolation of twenty teachers from the college of Canner, in Kédange.
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The question of border workers
Another request expressed aloud: “Arrange a larger stock of vaccines on the Moselle. The situation requires it. Finally, unlike his counterpart from Metz François Grosdidier, Pierre Cuny rejects the idea of hard confinement. “It must remain an option. But such a measure would prove ineffective with the 150,000 cross-border workers who converge here. Above all, there is a need to strengthen controls relating to compliance with the curfew. It remains to be seen whether Olivier Véran, visiting Metz, will listen attentively to these proposals …
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