The Regional Health Agency (ARS) alerts Sunday on traffic “Very worrying” of Covid-19 in the naturist village of Cap d’Agde (Hérault), after having registered “Nearly 30% of positive cases” on a single day this week.
“More than 800 screening tests were carried out last week. The results of the tests carried out on Wednesday confirmed nearly 30% of positive cases among people who visited the naturist village of Cap d’Agde ”, wrote in a press release on Sunday ARS Occitanie.
Thus, on Wednesday 57 new positive cases were confirmed out of the 244 validated results, specifies the ARS.
4 times higher rate
“Among the people who volunteered for this screening, the rate of positive cases among people who have visited the naturist village is four times higher than that of people who have stayed in the town of Agde, but who have not visited this village”, she emphasizes.
Already last Monday, out of the 194 validated samples, 38 cases were positive (20%). These cases were in addition to around fifty reports concerning people who tested positive after their return home, after a stay in the seaside resort of Cap d’Agde, details the ARS.
The results of the 310 tests carried out on Friday are expected shortly.
The body that calls for a “Strict compliance with preventive measures and all barrier gestures” within this seaside resort, warns that screening operations will be implemented again from Monday morning.
ARS alert since Thursday
The ARS had already launched an alert on Thursday on the station.
As soon as the results were known, the people declared positive had received in particular “Prevention instructions” and had been invited if their condition “Clinic showed no sign of seriousness”, to favor the use of their personal vehicle to return to their home.
At the start of the week, the Hérault department was classified as “High level of vulnerability”.
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