End of the state of health emergency

A restricted council of ministers was held yesterday, Friday, 03 September 2021. The decree proclaiming the end of the state of health emergency in the territory of the Republic of Madagascar was taken during this council..

The situation is improving

This decision to end the state of emergency period is the clear improvement in the health situation. “The Covid-19 contamination rate is at its lowest level”, states the missive. The latest statistics that the authorities have published show two positive cases, for nearly seven hundred tests carried out. The number of patients with serious forms, according to official figures, is seven.

In view of the figures and the situation on the ground, Madagascar seems to have escaped the second wave of strong spread of the coronavirus. It has been several days since we recorded any deaths due to the virus.

The incessant waltz of ambulances in the streets has fallen silent. Covid-19 Treatment Centers (CTC), closed their doors. Emergency rooms and hospital rooms are no longer crowded with patients suffering from this disease that is paralyzing the world.

No new cases last week

Last week, the Big Island has even gone a day without any positive cases being recorded. Information that President Andry Rajoelina himself highlighted.

Even in Antananarivo which has always been the epicenter of contamination, life has returned to normal in recent weeks. The macabre days at the height of the second wave seem like a distant memory.

Avoiding a third wave

The great mass of football at the Barea stadium, at Mahamasina, Thursday, demonstrates that the authorities are confident that the country has emerged a winner from the second Covid-19 offensive. Shows and other popular meetings resume across the island. Since the start of the exceptional situation, yet, and even during the lull following the first wave, between December 2019, until April, the State has not compromised on one point. That concerning the reopening of borders, including, aerial.

The clandestine entry by sea of ​​travelers from the Comoros would have been the cause of the invasion of the South African variant. Also, the authorities remained inflexible on the question of reopening the borders. There are a, However, exceptions, subject to having negative PCR tests, a period of quarantine and carrying out a counter-test, in principle. Last week, However, President Rajoelina announced that the reopening of the borders is planned for October.

Now that the health emergency is lifted, tourism and transport stakeholders, particularly, air transport must therefore accelerate preparations to be on point when the borders reopen. The State intends to vaccinate all players in these sectors, as well as the inhabitants of the main seaside resorts of Nosy Be and Sainte Marie. There are a, also, international health standards to be assimilated and put into practice in order to reassure tourists.

Getting the air transport sector off the ground

With the setbacks of Air Madagascar, it will be necessary, also, find a way to get the air transport sector off the ground so as not to miss the momentum of reopening borders. This lifting of the self-embargo could, However, to be done gradually. In Paris, Last week, the head of state was clear, it will depend on the health situation at the global level. The authorities do not want, Indeed, that other variants of the coronavirus invade the country.

Sooner or later, life had to return to normal. Only awareness and individual vigilance will make it possible to avoid a new wave of strong spread of Covid-19.. (Madagascar Express)

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