Prime Minister Jean Castex, contact case at Covid after one of his daughters, aged 11, tested positive, was forced into isolation and will lead the meeting on Monday around elected officials from Guadeloupe by videoconference. The head of government “immediately performed a PCR test so the result will be known and communicated in the evening,” said Matignon. Jean Castex went to Brussels in the morning where he met his Belgian counterpart Alexander De Croo.
Jean Castex was initially to receive in Matignon this Monday some of the elected officials of Guadeloupe in order to allow them “to expose their analysis of the situation on the spot”, surrounded by the Ministers of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, of the Overseas, Sébastien Lecornu , and Health, Olivier Véran. He will make a statement at the end of the meeting, broadcast on social networks.
Third time contact case
The West Indian department, hit hard by the Covid-19 epidemic this summer, has been shaken for a week by a movement originating from the challenge of the vaccination obligation of caregivers, which degenerated into a social crisis punctuated by numerous violence during the night from Thursday to Friday, when violence and looting began. Emmanuel Macron on Monday launched an appeal for calm in the face of a crisis described as “very explosive”.
The Prime Minister had already been in contact with Covid 19 on two occasions: a first time after a dinner with Emmanuel Macron in December, following which the president had tested positive, then in June, after Jean’s wife Castex had contracted the disease. The head of government, who received two doses of the vaccine, has never tested positive.