Watch out for Covid-19! Contaminations are on the rise everywhere in France, and in Creuse. The incidence rate even exceeds once more the symbolic bar of 1,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the departement.
At school too, the lights are red: 19 Creuse classes closed, none in Haute-Vienne, one in Corrèze. In short, the Creuse is very affected, and many people rush to the pharmacy to get tested. This is the case with that of the Leclerc shopping center in Guéret. At the end of February – beginning of March, the pharmacist, Pascal Lebreton, was doing 15 tests a day. But for two weeks, it has jumped. “We have doubled, tripled. It’s between 20 and 30 tests per day, sometimes a small peak at 40.”
One in three tests positive
According to him, Infections are mainly in families. Sophie, who has just come to be tested, can testify to this. “I have my whole family who is infected. It started with my seven-year-old son, then my husband, and finally, my little four-month-old baby.” Bad news a few minutes later, she is positive. This is the case ofone out of three tests, explains Pascal Lebreton. Not to mention the very high incidence rate. “An incidence of 1,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, we can consider that it makes 1%. Which means that out of a group of 100 people, you have one that is positive. It seems weak like that, but in fact, it’s a lot.”
Barrier gestures
Alexandre, contact case, wonders regarding the lifting of restrictions, was it too early? “It is true that we are lightening up, and less than a fortnight later, the epidemic starts once more, it is blazing in terms of the figures so we can ask ourselves the question. He keeps his mask on in stores. What the pharmacist recommends. Pascal Lebreton advises to continue to respect barrier gesturesespecially when it’s crowded. “Everyone must apply common sense rules, in areas that are still shared, even if the recommendation to remove the mask is made, in my opinion it is better to keep it. We must adapt the barrier gestures, that” is that what makes it possible to break the chains of diffusion of the virus.