Val-d’Oise has one of the highest incidence rates

At the Sarcelles market (Val-d’Oise), Wednesday January 19, most customers wear the mask, according to the regulations in force. But despite common sense, the Omicron variant has been invited to many end-of-year family celebrations. “Virtually everyone has had Covid-19 with us”, says a resident. A domino effect that Doctor El Mokhtari observes every day in his office, and which she explains in part by the precariousness of many inhabitants of the east of Val-d’Oise. “There is a great promiscuity within the accommodation”, she says.

Another explanation put forward: the Val-d’Oisiens are a little less vaccinated than the national average. At the Gonesse hospital, the unvaccinated occupy most of the conventional hospital beds, the number of which has doubled, from twenty-five to sixty in one month. But the figures are stabilizing, and health professionals are calling not to relax. The Val-d’Oise prefecture has published the map of all the municipalities, in orange, where wearing a mask has remained compulsory in crowded places, including outdoors.