In Barcares, the holiday village is closed due to the Delta Variant case

From Sunday, July 25, the resort village of Barcares in the Eastern Pyrenees will no longer have visitors. Although the incidence rate this Friday, July 23, in the department again broke a record (492 cases per 100,000 inhabitants), 4 positive cases of the Delta variant were identified in the technical team of the Portes du Roussillon resort club, as well as 16 contact persons. cases. General director Jean-François Gouriau decided to close the establishment “to save the season”: close for a week and evacuate the village to create a health bubble and save August.

150 people must be resettled

The crisis unit was activated to accommodate 150 holidaymakers who still had to spend eight days there. You will also have to call to cancel your reservation… This is in lieu of summer events for the holiday village team. The program also includes cleaning of premises, disinfection, isolation of contact persons and patients. This closure decision “is not a decision of the prefecture,” adds Jean-François Gouriau, “it is a preventive measure” that management took to preventively test 130 employees using ARS.

Some holidaymakers, like Sonya, who arrived this Saturday morning, July 24th, by train with her family, find the door locked. The night watchmen tell her that she cannot enter. “My phone is out of order and I haven’t received a message from the village,” she tells us. The management will have to take care of her relocation, because she does not want to be compensated for the long journey from Nancy…