After Bas-Rhin, the curfew is brought forward to 6 p.m. from Sunday in Haut-Rhin, Cher and Côte-d’Or due to the acceleration of the Covid-19 epidemic in these departments.
After Bas-Rhin, the curfew is brought forward to 6 p.m. from Sunday in Haut-Rhin, Cher and Côte-d’Or due to the acceleration of the Covid-19 epidemic in these departments, we learned on Saturday from the prefectures concerned.
To ” to curb the number of new contaminations as quickly as possible », The prefect of Cher has brought the curfew over the entire department to 6:00 p.m. starting Sunday January 10.
Fifteen departments have already known this advanced curfew for a week and the government announced on Friday its possible extension to ten other departments.
Increasing incidence rate
« With an incidence rate of 243.60 per 100,000 inhabitants and a positivity rate of 10.80%, the health situation of Cher remains extremely worrying. », Writes the prefecture in a press release.
Under this decree, businesses will have to close at 6 p.m. and take-out will be prohibited after that time. However, home deliveries are still possible.
It will also be possible for a parent to pick up their child from nursery or school after an extracurricular activity, and employees or high school students ending their days after 6 p.m. will be able to return home during the curfew.
Similar arrangements have been made in Côte-d’Or, where the decree runs from January 10 to 24. In this department, the seven-day incidence rate is 218.4 per 100,000 inhabitants within the general population, and 239.2 per 100,000 inhabitants among those over 65 years of age.
« The occupancy rate of intensive care beds in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is 87.88%, a rate well above the national average. Hospital pressure therefore remains high », Warns the prefect in a press release.
« The decision was inevitable in Dijon, the 3rd city most affected in France by the Covid-19 after Nice and Nancy, but I regret that this curfew advanced to 6:00 p.m. also applies in rural areas infinitely less affected by the virus. François Sauvadet, president of the Côte-d’Or department, told AFP.
« I appeal to the government, + work more closely with the departments that are in charge of medico-social », Insisted Mr. Sauvadet.
The Bas-Rhin has also formalized the advancement of the curfew at 6:00 p.m. as well as the Haut-Rhin where the incidence rate reached 229 per 100,000 inhabitants and 251 for people over 65, specifies the prefecture.
On the other hand, Haute-Savoie maintains it at 8:00 p.m.
These new provisions were received with circumspection among the elected officials of Cher, the PS mayor of Bourges Yann Galut evoking a “false good idea”.
« I am in favor of a curfew at 8:00 p.m. but bringing it back to 6:00 p.m. for Bourges is an absurdity because it will lead to a concentration of the population in supermarkets before the shops close, therefore a greater risk of contamination “, He declared to the AFP.
« For me the only way to reduce the epidemic is to speed up vaccination and make it possible in pharmacies “, he added.
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