The Guadeloupe announced the end of the curfew and the obligation of the port of the mask in public spaces as of Friday. The port of the mask remains mandatory until April 9th in Martinique.
Le Monde with AFP
The state of health emergency will be lifted in the night from Thursday to Friday, at midnight, in all the ultramarine territories: the West Indies, the meeting and the New Caledonia, where it was still applied, communicated the Ministry Overseas at the France-Press agency (AFP), Thursday, March 31st.
The government had decreed the state of health emergency on February 2 in New Caledonia and January 5th in Guadeloupe, Guyana, Mayotte, Saint Martin and Saint-Barthelemy, territories. Overseas where, under the effect of the Omicron Variant, the circulation of SARS-COV-2 knew a “considerable increase”. Martinique has been in a state of emergency since December 8 and the island of Reunion since December 27th.
Since then, the government has risen the state of emergency in Guyana and Mayotte on March 2nd. The prefectures of Martinique and Guadeloupe clarified, on Wednesday, the modalities of this lifting of the most restrictive measures.
Maintaining the immunization obligation for caregivers
Stressing “improving the health situation that stabilizes at a high level with a hospital pressure that decreases”, the prefecture of Guadeloupe announced the end of the curfew and the obligation of the port of the mask in the mask. public spaces from Friday. The presentation of the sanitary pass in institutions receiving the public will no longer be required from Monday.
The Préfecture of Martinique explains that “the curfew will be removed and the opening hours of common law will apply for restaurants and drinks” from the 1 er April.
The port of the mask will however remain mandatory in Martinique in public places until April 9, when it will only be “strongly recommended” in all closed places, adds the press release.
Some measures will remain in force after the emergency lifting in these islands of the Caribbean: the immunization obligation for caregivers, the wearing of the mask in collective transport and the health care in the health facilities .