MARIGOT:--- ARS confirmed a new case of Covid-19 in Saint Martin on Saturday. The person is under surveillance at home. The second case is still hospitalized, while the third patient, was evacuated to Guadeloupe CHU.
The containment measures recommended for the whole population and particularly for contact cases seem to bring the first results in the increase in the number of confirmed cases. The virus, however, circulates possibly in an asymptomatic way and it is therefore essential to respect the barrier measures. The awareness of the importance of containment must not be relaxed, on the contrary, it must be reinforced.
Stay at home, drastically limit your trips, respect the barrier measures.
Only in this way can we together manage to limit the number of cases and help our healthcare professionals, whom we warmly thank for the enormous work already accomplished.
The ARS RIPOSTE COVID 19 platform at 05 90 99 14 74 (8 a.m. to 6 p.m. 7 days a week), open since yesterday, records 50 calls at 11 a.m. It is gradually increasing in power, so it must be given the benefit of adaptation time and avoid saturating it just for information that can be obtained via the government information site or the number 0800 130 000.
The platform mainly aims to inform the population about the Covid19 epidemic, strengthen city-hospital coordination, offer a telemedicine solution to healthcare players in Guadeloupe in order to better monitor Covid19 patients while reducing Patient-contact as much as possible. Caregiver, Contribute to spreading prevention messages to slow the epidemic (containment, barrier measures).
