At the request of the mayors of Sainte-Anne, Les Abymes and Pointe-à-Pitre, the prefect of Guadeloupe has just issued an order prohibiting all travel from 20 p.m. to 5 a.m., from Tuesday evening until the 31st March, in the territory of these three municipalities. Except for exceptions.
The city of Nice was one of the first to introduce a curfew, in addition to confinement, to fight the coronavirus epidemic. Since then, more than a hundred cities in France have applied one.
In Guadeloupe, the mayor of Abymes, Eric Jalton, drew the first. He was joined by his counterparts from Pointe-à-Pitre and Sainte-Anne. At their request, the Prefect of Guadeloupe has just issued an order prohibiting all travel from 20 p.m. to 5 a.m., from Tuesday March 24, 20 p.m. until March 31 at 5 a.m., on the territory of these three municipalities. . Apart from the following exceptions:
• Journeys between the home and the place or places of professional activity and professional trips which cannot be postponed;
• Travel for health reasons with the exception of consultations and care that can be provided remotely and, except for patients with a long-term illness, those that can be postponed;
• Travel for compelling family reasons, for the assistance of vulnerable people and for childcare;
• Travel resulting from a summons from an administrative court or a judicial authority
Internal security forces and emergency services, staff and vehicles of the departmental fire and rescue service, duly identified medical and paramedical health professionals as well as municipal police officers from Sainte-Anne, Pointe -à-Pitre and des Abymes, and the intervention vehicles of the bodies responsible for maintaining essential public services are not affected by this decree.
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