If some elected officials denounce two weights with the metropolis, most Martiniquais without anger welcome the extension of the state of emergency until March 31 and curfew at 8 pm, on the evening of the St. Sylvestre, to cope with the Cvid-19 epidemic that rages on the island, already heavily bereaved.
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At the end of one year 2021 particularly trying, the festivities of St. Sylvestre enjoyed dull in Martinique. Swept by a fourth flagging wave of the Covid-19 epidemic that has mounted many families between July and October, shaken by a serious enamelled social crisis of violence in November, this island of the Caribbean has been accommodating for nearly six months. , of drastic restrictions put in place to stem the progression of SARS-COV-2.
Instaled for three months on July 13, 2021, in this department by President Emmanuel Macron, the state of emergency sanitary had already been extended until 31 December. However, given the epidemic rebound on the island, where the Omicron variant was detected for the first time on 24 December, the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, announced, in his speech of December 27, that the exceptional measures were going to be extended for three months in this ultramarin territory. “The government will table, under the parliamentary discussion, an amendment to make this state of emergency health applicable until [31 March 2022] in Martinique”, can we read on the website of the Ministry of Overseas.
This newly rejoicing, presidentially for several days, has hardly reacted in the island. “The announcement of the prolongation of the state of health does not surprise us with regard to the level of the indicators of health security at the local level,” says Audrey Thaly-Bardol, a member of the Executive Board of the Territorial Community of Martinique . “This measure aims to protect the population in the face of a situation that is far from stabilized,” the counselor, responsible for health in the department.
Indicators on the rise
Indeed, if the peak of the fourth wave – with an incidence rate of 1,200 cases per 100,000 inhabitants for seven days in mid-August – is now far away, epidemiological indicators are clearly returned to the Rise since the beginning of the month. As at December 30, the Martinique Regional Health Agency identified 343 contaminations per 100,000 population, the double of the previous week.
At the same date, the island of 350,000 inhabitants deplored 783 deaths in hospitals since the beginning of the epidemic, plus several hundred deaths from Cvid-19 at home, as hospitals, submerged For several months, have not been able to take care of all patients. “It must be confessed that the virus has never stopped from actively circulating on the territory, adds M me Thaly-Bardol. While the immunization coverage of the population remains around 40% , the hospital pressure is very strong. “
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