On Saturday 4th September, 284 asymptomatic cases, 7 admissions to the ENT hospital for treatment and 1 death caused by the virus were announced by the Ministry early this evening. Today’s figure puts the percentage of the population infected at 0.92%. The vaccination rate is 826,580 Mauritians primo inoculated and 763,306 have received both doses. However, Reuters classifies Mauritius as highly infected, Mauritius is on the red list for India.
On the Reuters counter, Mauritius is well above average in terms of the rate of increase in the world with 198 cases per 100,000 people in the last 7 days, which we recall, are counted under the new protocol. As reported on the news site, “Mauritius: COVID-19 cases are on the rise with an average of 359 new infections reported each day. This represents 98% of peak infections – the highest average number of daily infections was reported on 30th August. There have been 11,181 infections and 31 deaths related to the coronavirus in the country since the beginning of the epidemic,” says the analysis, which is based on reports and data from the Mauritian Ministry of Health.
India’s restriction on Mauritian passengers
For its part, India is imposing restrictions on its incoming passengers from 7 other countries, including Mauritius. The countries others are South Africa, Bangladesh, Botswana, China, New Zealand and Zimbabwe. Those from the UK, the European Union and the Middle East are already on the list. This is the decision of the Indian Ministry of Health where Rajesh Bhushan, Union Health’s secretary said, “We have taken this decision following reports of new mutations of the Covid-19 and the increase in the number of variants of interest and concern globally. The Mauritians will have to present a negative PCR test dated less than 72 hours before boarding the plane and will have to do another test upon arrival at the airport and it has to be negative in order to gain access to Indian territory.”
Based on our facts and figures
We are clearly being tagged as a country with a high potential for contamination, The explosion of cases in recent weeks has earned us this position and restriction. These facts do not take into account the announcements of the Ministry of Health or the various committees which maintain that the situation is under control thanks to the vaccination campaign which is rapidly gaining ground in the ambition of collective immunity or even that Mauritius will be ready for the grand reopening of 1st October, given that the government’s goal of 60% of the population vaccinated has already been met!
