After Toulouse comes the turn of Montauban in the former Midi-Pyrénées region. The prefect of Tarn-et-Garonne now makes the mask compulsory in the city center every Saturday during the day. By hypercentre, you have to understand the Place Nationale, its market and all the adjoining streets. For schedules, the mask should be worn all day, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Pierre Besnard, the prefect of Tarn-et-Garonne also reserves the right to extend this decree to other streets in Montauban if the epidemic situation were to worsen further in the coming weeks.
Mask compulsory for school buses
Another decision of the prefect, wearing a mask is compulsory on school buses, but also at bus stops. “Places of strong gatherings “ which will concentrate a lot of people from the start of the school year. Particular attention will be paid to compliance with the instructions from next week throughout the department according to Pierre Besnard.
“Active circulation” of the virus
As for the other departments of Occitanie, the epidemic is progressing rapidly in Tarn-et-Garonne, and the positivity rate of the people tested proves it: according to the ARS, this figure has almost quadrupled in the past two weeks, going from 0.7% to 2.6% of positive cases after test in the department. No doubt about it, “the virus circulates actively“according to David Billetorte, the departmental delegate of the ARS.
There are thus nearly 350 positive cases per day in the department and three clusters detected, including one in the care unit for the elderly of the Montauban hospital center. In Occitania, all the departments except Aveyron and Lozère have now exceeded the threshold of vulnerability, thus passing the threshold of vigilance. In Midi-Pyrénées, Haute-Garonne even went into the red zone on Thursday.
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