By Nicolas gosselin
Published on 23 Jan 21 at 13:53
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As of January 22, 2021, the incidence rate reached a similar level in Gironde (167 / 100,000 inhabitants) to that of October 28, 2020 (179), the day of the announcement of second confinement.
Alert threshold reinforced in four departments
Since mid-January, all of Aquitaine has crossed the enhanced alert threshold except the Pyrénées-Atlantiques (set at 150).
A regional trend, as at the national level, which raises fears of a tightening of health measures throughout France.
“The hypothesis of containment is more and more likely,” a government source told AFP on Friday January 22, 2021.
Despite the curfew and barrier gestures, an exponential increase in the Covid-19 epidemic is expected in France because of its English variant, which is more contagious.
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