Faced with the worsening health crisis in Italy with more than 219 infected people and seven dead people, Gérard Gromm, the mayor of Briançon – a city located at the gates of the Italian border and about 200 km from Lombardy – has decided to to act. This Monday morning, he sent a letter to the sub-prefect of Hautes-Alpes, “to find out how to organize in the face of a possible entry of the epidemic into the territory. A crisis unit has also been opened at the Briançon hospital to see what could be put in place, especially in the emergency department so that they can be ready to diagnose and treat“. If he insures”not to be worried at the moment“, the mayor of the second city of Hautes-Alpes, believes that”if we don’t prepare, we put nothing in place and the epidemic arrives, we would be responsible“.
The mayor also announces that for the time being, there is “no health checks planned at the border with Italy“, located about ten kilometers away, in Montgenèvre. Information confirmed by the Hautes-Alpes Prefecture and the Regional Health Agency. Through a press release sent to the press this Monday evening, ARS Paca claims to have”set up an organization on the regional territory to prepare the health system for possible cases of coronavirus“and adds that”any confirmed case will be the subject of an epidemiological investigation in order to find all the close contacts of the confirmed case“.
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