wearing a mask outdoors again compulsory in 50 municipalities
This Tuesday evening, the prefecture of Haute-Savoie decided to make it compulsory again to wear a mask outdoors. This measure, which comes into force on Wednesday, December 1, will be applied in “municipalities with a high population density”. Fifty municipalities (see the list below) are affected by this new regulation. In a press release, the prefecture indicates that it has taken this decision in view of an increasingly degraded health situation. “The number of people hospitalized for Covid-19 in Haute-Savoie has exploded. It stood at 84 on November 30, 2021 (compared to 47 on November 15, 2021), including 12 hospitalized in intensive care.”
- Annecy district
Annecy, Manigod, La Clusaz, Le Grand Bornand, Rumilly, Saint-Jean-de-Sixt and Thônes
- Borough of Bonneville
Araches-les-Frasses, Bonneville, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Cluses, Combloux, Cordon, La Côte d’Arboz, Les Contamines-Montjoie, Les Gets, Les Houches, Marignier, Megève, Mieussy, Passy, Praz-sur -Arly, La Roche-sur-Foron, Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, Sallanches, Samoëns, Servoz, Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval, Taninges, Vallorcine and Verchaix
- Borough of Saint-Julien-en-Genevois
Ambilly, Annemasse, Gaillard, Saint-Julien-en-Genevois and Ville-la-Grand
- District of Thonon les Bains
La Baume, Le Biot, La Chapelle d’Abondance, Châtel, Essert-Romand, Evian-les-Bains, La Forclaz, Montriond, Morzine-Avoriaz, Saint-Jean-d’Aulps, Seytroux, Thonon-les-Bains and La Vernaz
Looseness
In Haute-Savoie, the incidence rate over 7 rolling days is now over 382 per 100,000 inhabitants against 85 on November 15, an increase of nearly 350% in 15 days. According to the prefecture, Haute-Savoie is now the 15th department with the highest incidence rate in France metropolitan. “This meteoric deterioration of the health situation is accumulated by the relaxation observed in the nonetheless simple respect of barrier gestures, the effectiveness of which, in addition to the vaccine, is no longer short”, specifies the prefect. Alain Espinasse respondent “to the remobilization of all”.