By Le Figaro with AFP
Published
January 14 at 8:46 a.m.
Johan ORDONEZ / AFP
Since August 23, 2024, 192 cases of this disease, transmitted by the tiger mosquito, have been recorded on the island of nearly 900,000 inhabitants.
The prefect of Réunion, in the grip of a chikungunya epidemic “low intensity”announced this Monday evening the triggering of level 3 of a crisis management system linked to «arboviruses».
“Due to the increase in the number of cases and the dispersion of outbreaks (…), Patrice Latron, prefect of Reunion, triggers level 3 of the ORSEC “Arboviroses” system, which corresponds to the circulation of a low-intensity epidemic”declared the prefecture in a press release.
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Since August 23, 2024, 192 cases of this disease, transmitted by the tiger mosquito, have been recorded on the island of nearly 900,000 inhabitants, French department of the Indian Ocean. The southern municipalities, including that of L'Etang-Salé which has 90 cases, have been the most affected since the appearance of the virus, specify the authorities. Several cases have also been recorded in the Hermitage and Saline sector, a seaside area on the west coast.
“Dealing with the appearance of new cases”
“Since the appearance of the first cases, 120 agents have been mobilized and carried out daily control and prevention actions”a workforce “regularly revised upwards to deal with the appearance of new cases in neighborhoods which until now were not affected by the virus”indicates the prefecture.
The public authorities want to avoid a recurrence of the chikungunya epidemic of 2005 and 2006. A third of the island's population, or around 260,000 people, had been contaminated by the virus, of which 225 had died as a result of the disease. .
