Bruz (France) (AFP)
A new "cluster" of coronavirus was identified on Wednesday near Rennes, in Bruz where 10 people in total were contaminated, bringing the number of confirmed cases to 104 in Brittany, announced on Thursday the Regional Health Agency (ARS) and the regional prefecture.
Aged between 21 and 56, the ten new cases, all teachers, are taken care of at their home under the supervision of the Rennes University Hospital and "their condition does not inspire concern", said the director general of the ARS Stéphane Mulliez at a press conference Thursday morning at the prefecture.
As early as Thursday evening, the prefect Michèle Kirry issued a decree classifying the commune "zone of active circulation of the virus", with immediate measures "applicable to the commune of Bruz alone" in order to "limit the spread of the virus".
Eleven schools (from kindergarten to high school) are closed until March 25 inclusive, or 5,500 students affected. "Gatherings in places and / or activities involving prolonged promiscuity of the public promoting the transmission of the virus are prohibited". Are concerned: nurseries, places of worship, cinemas and swimming pools.
At midday, on the closed door of the public school group Vert Buisson, where the first case was identified, a poster informs of "the quarantine" of a "teacher of the school".
"We do not make a statement, it is the recommendations" reacted to AFP a woman joining with two colleagues the premises of a private nursery school in the neighborhood.
"There is no particular anxiety," says Jean-Marc Pennarun, 37, resident of Bruz, charge d'affaires in electrical engineering. He learned the news "through social networks" and finds that "it's a little surprising this atmosphere of a dead city".
The district, usually animated by the presence of numerous shops and restaurants, shelters two schools and a residence for seniors. "I know people who have a child in the school next door, and that poses organizational problems," he said.
During an extraordinary CSE, the management of the PSA plant in Rennes, which employs 2,200 employees and around 800 temporary workers at its site near Bruz, decided - "without a suspicious case being detected" - to strengthen the Covid-19 prevention, the CFDT announced in a press release.
"A strengthening of measures will be undertaken on the site with also a novelty, the random verification of the temperature of employees", according to the CFDT.
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