Coronavirus: Haute-Corse goes green on the deconfinement map

The card presented for deconfinement on May 11 went green for all of Corsica this Friday, this was just announced by the Director General of Health Jérôme Salomon during his daily press briefing.

This means in principle that the deconfinement conditions will be more flexible in Corsica than in regions and departments classified red.

Following the publication of epidemic monitoring maps, Public Health France has made changes in certain departments: Aisne, Calvados, Cher, Dordogne, Lot, Nièvre, Oise, Tarn and Haute-Corse.

The card presented Friday for deconfinement.

The day before, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran had presented a card for the least surprising: the department of Haute-Corse, less affected by the Covid-19 by the Covid-19, was classified red there. Corse-du-Sud was in green.

The Minister of Health had detailed three maps to justify these choices. The first estimated, and this is what was surprising, that the circulation of the virus was stronger in Haute-Corse than in Corse-du-Sud.

However Thursday, according to a last assessment of the Regional Health Agency of Corsica, 24 patients were hospitalized on the island (15 in Ajaccio, and 9 in Bastia), including 8 people in intensive care, (6 in Corse-du-Sud , 2 in Haute-Corse).

In the maps presented by Jérôme Salomon on Friday, the circulation of the virus according to emergency admissions went green in Haute-Corse.

Thursday evening, in the face of general surprise, the Corsican regional health agency published a press release explaining that “the modalities of coding by the Bastia hospital center entail[aient] an overestimation of the number of emergency visits to Covid out of step with the number of cases tested positive “.

Friday, before Jérôme Salomon’s announcements, the Bastia Hospital Center announced in a press release that it had carried out a major screening campaign from the start of the Covid-19 epidemic. The data was reported automatically by the hospital’s Medical Information Department. “This process explains the large number of cases brought up, including screenings, suspected cases and proven cases,” said the hospital’s communication.
The second map presented by Olivier Véran reported “hospital tension”, which corresponds to the level of saturation in the intensive care units. In Corsica, the indicators are all green. The Card remained unchanged for the region on Friday.

The third map, which is a summary map, presented the outlook for deconfinement on May 11, according to estimates made on April 30. It changed a lot between April 30 and May 1.

“Green” or “red”: what awaits us?

At the moment, there is little information on the measures applied at the territorial level. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe however announced that the reopening of the colleges can only take place the week of May 18 in departments classified green. In addition, Secretary of State Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne recommended the French to only go on vacation in departments classified green and near their home.

A temporary and upgradeable card

The card presented Thursday and Friday must allow the various departments to prepare for progressive deconfinement, from May 11. By this date, most businesses will have reopened and you will be able to move without certification within a radius of 100 kilometers around your home.

The color of the departments will change, depending on the circulation of the Covid-19 at the local level. The map should be updated every evening.

The card presented this evening is valid for this Thursday, but is in no case a projection of the data on May 11, said “Olivier Véran.

From May 7, the version of the card will be “crystallized”, in the words of Edouard Philippe, in view of May 11.

According to what criteria are we classified “red” or “green”?

The detailed map by Olivier Véran and Jérôme Salomon depends on three criteria:

the rate of new weekly cases of Covid-19: if it remains high, this means that the circulation of SARS-CoV-2 is still active
the tension in the intensive care units: if they remain at high occupancy rates, there is a risk of saturation in the event of new hospitalizations
screening capacities from May 11: the government is focusing its deconfinement plan on the possibility of quickly identifying new contaminations and isolating confirmed or suspected cases.

Will we be able to move from one department to another from May 11?

Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Tuesday “reduce interregional and interdepartmental transport to the maximum by limiting travel only to compelling professional or family reasons.” He said: “We will continue to reduce the offer, to require a compulsory reservation on all trains, to discourage travel between departments.”

Complicated but not impossible: contacted by franceinfo Thursday, April 30, Matignon services confirm that it will be possible to move from one department to another without compelling reasons, family or professional, as long as your trip does not go to- beyond 100 kilometers from your home.

“If you live in an area where the virus is actively circulating, you are not expected to travel to areas in which the virus does not circulate since, by definition, this is where you take the risk of spreading the virus. virus more broadly “, argued however, Wednesday, on Franceinfo, Olivier Véran. He left it to “individual responsibility and collective responsibility”.

Now that the two departments of Corsica are green, this means that we can certainly move freely within a radius of 100km from May 11. We evaluated this distance in different points of the territory. Be careful, however: it is still impossible to go to Italy: the borders of the Schengen area should remain closed until September.

►The 100 km radius around Rogliano