At the CHU, it’s dead calm. Nobody is busy putting the small beds in the big ones or recovering forgotten respirators from the bottom of the cupboards since the great epidemic wave of April 2021 when the resuscitation was full. No panic, no over-excited preparations at this stage “but we are monitoring”, specifies the CHU. Already, at the last count of the prefecture and the ARS, the counters were starting to go up. Nothing frightening but a momentum that deserves to keep the foot not too far from the brake. With an incidence rate of 175/100,000 inhabitants on June 24 and 152 the previous week, Reunion, around June 27, had already reached a TI of 200. disturbing in itself. “In the number of positive cases, there are a certain number of people who remain positive for several weeks because the test detects dead debris from the virus”, recently reminded us of Professor Xavier Deparis, director of health monitoring at the ARS. . The figures should therefore be taken with a grain of salt. Positive and not sick…but prevented from flying anyway, for those who intended to travel. That said, there are also travelers and locals who catch the virus, more or less virulently, and who will only be positive for a few days, sometimes without being really indisposed. Migraines, sometimes nausea, runny nose… And forced stay on the ground, while the plane takes off towards what should have been the vacation destination.
Could the authorities, if the upward curve is accentuated, batten down the hatches? Officially, the state of health emergency will end on July 31. The Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon, has ruled out “for the moment” the implementation of restrictive measures. The …
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