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Why did the government decide not to confine the department of Seine-Saint-Denis when the incidence rate is the same as in Pas-de-Calais? (© Le Pollet / Maxppp)
Since, Thursday March 4, 2021, it is official, the Seine-Saint-Denis will not be confined over the weekend, announced Jean Castex during his press conference. But then why this decision on the part of the government when the Covid-19 virus has been circulating very actively for several days?
The incidence rate of new confirmed cases is 411 per 100,000 inhabitants in Pas-de-Calais and Seine-Saint-Denis, over seven rolling days on March 1, according to Public Health France. However, the department of the North will be confined and not the department of the Paris region. Why ?
“The hospital health burden is not the same”
Friday March 5, 2021, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran explained himself on this subject at the microphone of RMC/BFMTV. His first statement was “the hospital health burden is not the same in the Hauts-de-France region and in Île-de-France”.
Then the minister developed his point: “Seine-Saint-Denis is the whole of Ile-de-France because there are such social interactions between one Ile-de-France department and another that putting measures in place. on weekends in Seine-Saint-Denis that would mean setting them up throughout the Île-de-France. However, if this could be discussed in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis, in a certain number of neighboring departments, it was not essential at this stage ”.
Another strategy
So the government decided on another strategy for the department of Seine-Saint-Denis: accelerate vaccination and keep the department under surveillance. Could this be the last chance?
“So the choice that has been made is to still be in active surveillance, in vigilance, to go and test massively, to alert massively, to take steps to reach out to the populations in Seine-Saint-Denis to help them access vaccination when they are away and therefore gain more time on this virus and this epidemic, ”explains Olivier Véran.
Decisions which leave elected officials perplexed and which don’t understand the difference applied to the territories.
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