The Moselle worries the Minister of Health: during his weekly update Thursday evening, Olivier Véran pointed to the Lorraine department and the worrying presence of coronavirus variants: South African and Brazilian variants. The minister is going to Moselle this Thursday to meet elected officials and announce the measures intended to stop this outbreak.
The essential
- The Minister of Health Olivier Véran arrives in Moselle: at 1:45 p.m., he visits the ARS variant monitoring unit, then at 2:15 p.m. goes to the prefecture for a consultation meeting with elected officials.
- The department records 300 cases of variants South African and Brazilian in the last four days
- Many local elected officials are asking for the closing of all schools from this Friday evening, a week before the holidays.
- On the occasion of his visit, Olivier Véran should hand over the Legion of honor posthumously to a nurse Moselle.
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The direct
10h30 : “We should have acted first.” Questioned in front of the Plantières school in Metz, parents of pupils await announcements concerning their children, and the possibility of closing schools for one week of winter vacation. Action should be taken “nationally so that schools are healthy right after” comments a father. “I would be a little more reassured” pursues a mom, but another worries “of the type of care” and the need to be teleworked with “little ones at home.”
9:30 am: Olivier Véran’s program is known. The Minister of Health will arrive at 1:45 p.m. at the regional health agency to visit the variant monitoring unit and the crisis unit. At 2:45 p.m., he will go to the Moselle prefecture for a consultation meeting with the ARS and elected officials. He must answer journalists’ questions at the end of this meeting, a little before 4 p.m.
8:15 am: More vaccine doses for the Moselle? “We are seeing a dizzying acceleration of cases in 48 hours”, declares the mayor of Thionville Pierre Cuny on France Bleu. The one who is also a doctor in the city adds: “the first measure to be taken is to close schools, high schools, colleges, starting next week. We are one week away from the school holidays, and many, many cases are reported to us in schools. There is an acceleration. “
Containment must, according to him, remain an ultimate measure, but he calls for additional vaccine allocations for the region.
Tuesday, the president of the Moselle departmental council, Patrick Weiten had also called for more vaccines.
8:10 am: On France info, the president of the FCPE in Moselle Christelle Carron announces thata crisis meeting is scheduled with the rector at 2 p.m., it counts about sixty closed classes in Moselle.
Legion of honor posthumously for a Moselle nurse
7h40: According to information from France Bleu, the Minister of Health should present a legion of honor posthumously to a Moselle nurse. He is especially expected at the Prefecture at the beginning of the afternoon.
7:30 am: Schools close.“We must close the schools as soon as possible”, says deputy Mosellan Belkir Belhaddad, “Moreover, a consensus emerged during the meeting with the prefect and elected officials of the department. This is what we will affirm before the Minister of Health”.
The Moselle elected officials indeed met the prefect of Moselle, Laurent Touvet, Thursday evening, to express their opinion and to prepare the arrival of Olivier Véran.
7.20 a.m .: The mayor of Metz, François Grosdidier advertises on France Bleu: “A strong, but localized and short reconfinement. It is perhaps not necessary to reconfine Bitche or Sarrebourg on the other hand a part of the northern Meurthe-et-Moselle, agglomerated with the Moselle furrow perhaps deserves to be it. We need to get out of administrative divisions and take into account human and physiological reality “.
A cluster in a psychiatric hospital
7:10 am: The east of the department is the most affected by the outbreak variants. There is no real cluster, except in a mental hospital.
6h45 : The deputy (LR) of Moselle, Fabien Di Filippo, on France Bleu Lorraine, points for its part “population mixing” in the Moselle furrow, from the north to Luxembourg to the south in the direction of Nancy. But the chosen one from the south of Moselle especially “the counterproductive effect of the curfew at 6 p.m. : this causes massive gatherings of populations at certain times such as in supermarkets “ or “which concentrate population flows in public transport at key times of the day.”
These causes are added, according to him, to the opening of schools and the decline in vigilance on barrier gestures. On the other hand, he rejects the idea of a “global reconfinement of the Moselle” which would penalize the inhabitants without preventing the flow of workers and calls in turn for additional doses of vaccines.
6h40 : The deputy LREM Christophe Arend is worried about a possible closure of the border with Germany. “We must not end up closing the borders” assures the deputy of the constituency of Forbach. He wants to put in place a massive screening strategy shared by countries for frontier workers.
6:30 am: François Braun, head of emergencies at CHR Metz-Thionville and president of Samu-Urgences de France: “What worries us is the greater contagiousness of the South African variant with potentially more hospitalized patients, including in intensive care, starting next week” confides the professor.
“We have to prepare for tomorrow: increase our capacity to take care of patients.” That is to say deprogram operations and prepare for new patient transfers “to neighboring departments”, and “as soon as possible.” Currently, Moselle’s resuscitation services are 50% occupied by patients with severe forms of the coronavirus.
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