Emmanuel Macron in Reunion to take inventory of the chikungunya epidemic and the injury attributable to the Garance cyclone | EUROtoday

As a part of his 5 -day tour within the Indian Ocean, and the day after his journey to Mayotte, Emmanuel Macron was in Reunion on Tuesday, April 22, to take inventory of the injury attributable to the Garance cyclone and the chikungunya epidemic. “We are the first country in the world to have bought as many available doses of this brand new vaccine”mentioned the president at a press briefing after a fast crowd bathtub with residents of Saint-Denis, about 40,000 doses of the brand new IXCHIQ vaccine, which arrived on the island.

The doses of this primary vaccine having obtained an authorization to place European advertising are administered as a part of the vaccination marketing campaign launched in early April; They are at the moment supposed for individuals 65 and over with comorbidities. “All protection and prevention measures, especially for [femmes] speakers “should be arrange, mentioned Macron, who will change in the course of the day with the Regional Health Agency (ARS) to make a world level on the epidemic.

Six useless have been recorded on the island because the begin of the yr, and a seventh case is being invested, in keeping with the Regional Health Agency (ARS). Earlier within the day, Franceinfo reported the announcement by Gérard COOLLON, the director of the ARS of Reunion, of the demise of an toddler on the Center Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) in Saint-Pierre. Nearly 100,000 individuals, one in every of Reunion in 9, could have been contaminated by this infectious illness transmitted by the Mosquito Tiger-an affect for the second lower than that of the 2005-2006 epidemic, marked by greater than 260,000 circumstances and greater than 250 useless.

Emergency system for farmers

On the island, the difficulties stay palpable. The director normal of the CHU, Lionel Calenge, requested for the sending of medical reinforcements given the danger of saturation of well being facilities. “Every day for several weeks, we welcome between thirty and forty patients with” chik “on our two emergency services”which generates “Really a big tension on our capacities”he alerted on Sunday.

At the start of April, the island’s University Hospital sparked the white plan, a tool which makes it attainable to deprogram sure operations or to recall personnel in depart. “If reinforcements are necessary, they will be set up”promised the pinnacle of state on Tuesday, earlier than visiting the cathedral of Saint-Denis along with his spouse and the Minister of Overseas, Manuel Valls.

Another problem for Reunion, self -sufficient at three quarters: to face 250 million euros in injury attributable to the passage of Cyclone Garance, on February 28, together with 150 million for the agricultural sector alone, in keeping with first steadiness sheets. Already struck by a extreme drought, all of the island’s agricultural sectors (sugar cane representing 53 % of the agricultural space) have been closely affected by the winds and rains of garance, which left 5 useless.

In the morning, the Head of State met farmers. He introduced the implementation “From here to June” of a “Emergency device”with dedicated work “From the next few weeks” below the authority of the prefect. In this context, he plans to extend “Around 1,000 euros” Punctual support for cane planters. At the start of April, the abroad Minister introduced that he had this support from 385 to 765 euros per hectare for operators assigned by the Cyclone.

Military reinforcements

At the identical time, final yr, the bilal cyclone had already put the productions of the island on the bottom; Two cyclones in two years which testify to the rise and intensification of those meteorological phenomena.

Food sovereignty will likely be on the coronary heart of the fifth summit of the Indian Ocean Commission on Thursday in Madagascar.

The assembly is represented there alongside Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoros and Seychelles, however not Mayotte, the Comoros opposing the combination of the archipelago within the group as a consequence of colonial litigation. Mr. Macron will reaffirm the “Reunion strategic role in the Indo-Pacific Zone”the place France aspires to pose in regional energy alongside the United States, China or India.

“Since 2018, France has had an Indo-Pacific Strategy. We have put many more military and diplomatic means in recent years, and it will still be strengthened ”The Head of State mentioned on Tuesday. “We are going here, in Reunion, to increase by around 200 the number of soldiers present”Who “Will go from around 1,600 to 1,800”he added, primarily based on the final navy programming regulation.

In the Indo-Pacific zone, now we have “More than 8,000 soldiers”,, “The best maritime, air or terrestrial equipment”,, “Regular missions that are multiplying”continued the pinnacle of state. On Monday, in Mayotte, he introduced an envelope of greater than 3 billion euros over six years to finance the plan of “Refoundation” of the division, bruised by Cyclone Chido in December.