The five archipelags do not deplore any deaths related to COVID-19 since October 26th. A health law must enter into force at the end of December, binding on vaccination anyone working in contact with the public.
Le Monde with AFP
The state of emergency and curfews related to the CVIV-19 epidemic are lifted Tuesday, November 16 in French Polynesia, and the mask is no longer imposed outside, announced Monday to Papeete (Tuesday in Paris) The President of French Polynesia, Edouard Fricch, and the High Commissioner of the Republic, Dominique Sorin.
The virus killed 636 people in Polynesia, with a violent peak in August and September. But the five Polynesian archipelags no longer deplore any deaths related to COVID-19 since October 26, and only four patients are hospitalized in resuscitation at the hospital.
At the height of the epidemic, all hospital structures were saturated. The Taaone Hospital Center had to open beds in places of passage. An airliner had even been chartered to evacuate patients to the hexagon, 17,000 kilometers away.
The sanitary pass, “alternative” to the containment
The Polynesian President Edouard Fritch, excluded any return to confinement and defended with the High Commissioner of the Republic the introduction of the health care, which they presented as an “alternative to confinement”.
From 12 years, this pass will be required to travel in the Polynesian Islands, but also to go to bars and discotheques and attend the shows or cultural and festive events. It will not apply in restaurants.
m. Fritch also defended his law on the immunization obligation, which must apply from December 23rd. This law will forces for vaccination all persons exercising a profession in contact with the public. Despite a general strike movement announced by the local unions for the end of November, in opposition to this law, the President stated that he will maintain it “for the good of the population”. The Polynesian President finally announced that the community’s health teams would “make the door-to-door” to convince to be vaccinated 44% of Polynesians who are not yet.