Les Deux-Sèvres, department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine where the coronavirus circulates the most

There was no no crowd this Tuesday morning Valletta sports hall, at Bressuire. Room transformed for two days into a coronavirus screening center. A voluntary screening, free, as there was one in mid-June at Saint-Maixent-l’Ecole.

Mohamed, a resident of the neighborhood, and an employee at the Galliance slaughterhouse came, even if he has no symptoms. “I work in a place where we do not know if the virus is circulating. Coming to do this test, it reassures me as much for my health as for the health of my family”.

“We choose the sampling locations in relation to the circulation of the virus. We had circulation in Saint-Maixent-l’Ecole, we have one on the bocage bressuirais. Low traffic but it does exist”, specifies Laurent Flament, director of the regional health agency of Deux-Sèvres. Circulation also at the moment in Thouarsais and Niort.

In Deux-Sèvres, we are 6% of the population of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and we still have 25% of positive cases since May 13, Laurent Flament, director of ARS 79

“We are the department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine where the virus circulates the most”, recalls Laurent Flament. “It is controlled for the moment but it is to watch”. Fortunately, no serious cases noted. “Because the elderly and fragile protect themselves more”, continues the director of ARS 79.

“We do not explain it particularly if it is not that the traffic exists because everyone does not yet protect themselves sufficiently. The behaviors we all see in the street, in shopping centers, the masks are not always worn and hand washing not always respected “, notes Laurent Flament. “Protect us!”, he concludes

Screening continues this Wednesday, July 1 at Bressuire, Salle Omnisports de Valette, 2 boulevard Lescure, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

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