Since the start of the pandemic two years ago, 19 people have tested positive for covid-569 on the island, 19% partly Dutch, 49% partly French.
If for several months, the Dutch part has always counted more positive people, in January of this year the trend was reversed: the French part had confirmed 9621 contaminations against 9 in the Dutch part on January 308 (against respectively 31 and 5148 a month earlier). This difference is partly explained by the fact that many tourists came to be tested in the French part where the tests were at that time much cheaper than in the Dutch part.
In one year, the highest rate of contamination was observed in January 2022 with 43% of confirmed cases this month, i.e. 8480 contaminations on both sides of the island. Since then, the pace has dropped dramatically. In February, 544 new cases were confirmed (253 partly Dutch and 291 partly French).
In one year, the Dutch side experienced peaks in contamination in January this year with 4007 cases, in August and December 2021 with 949 and 713 new ones. In the French part were observed in January 2022, December and August 2021 with 4473, 1175 and 750 new cases respectively. (soualigapost.com)
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