This is one of the strongest increases, and one that necessarily calls to mind in the poorest department in mainland France. Indeed, in Seine-Saint-Denis, + 63% of deaths were observed between the penultimate and the last week of March, before Haute-Marne (+ 54%) and Val-d’Oise (47% ). A total of 208 people died from the Covid-19 coronavirus in March. Bondy’s mayor Sylvine Thomassin says he’s never signed so many death certificates a day. Excess mortality is, she says, linked to precariousness.
The mayor details: “We have a lot of social housing, often too small, and therefore difficulties not to cross paths in the house. (…) Obviously the overcrowding adds to it.” The authorities add another hypothesis: the confinement rules would have taken a few days to be respected. Above all, many residents hold jobs on the front line of the pandemic: cashier, delivery man, nursing assistant, nurse, etc. Seine-Saint-Denis has three times fewer intensive care beds than the neighboring department, Paris.
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