In Reunion, Emmanuel Macron faces the return of the Chikungunya virus and the agricultural disaster | EUROtoday

An official journey, between spherical tables and small committee visits. Emmanuel Macron took benefit of his conferences with Reunion actors, Tuesday, April 22, in an try to grasp the difficulties that seize for Reunion Island, in a context marked by the return of the Chikungunya epidemic and the agricultural disaster, within the wake of the Cyclone Garance which struck the island, on the finish of February.

Priorities reaffirmed by the President of the Republic throughout these few hours spent in Reunion the place he made quite a few commitments. “It is also a way of marking the support and solidarity of the nation and the State with our overseas territories”, Press the abroad minister Manuel Valls, who was erased behind the Head of State.

On Tuesday, firstly of the afternoon, Emmanuel Macron confronted the director of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Reunion, Gérard COOll, when the latter taught him the dying of an toddler affected by encephalitis, from the Chikungunya virus, this infectious illness transmitted by the Tiger mosquito. The seventh sufferer recognized because the begin of the epidemic.

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