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VIDEO. "It has to go in your nose": parents and children put to the test of repeated self-tests

2022-01-22T17:32:21.804Z


For the past few weeks, children have had a new daily life: self-tests. Contact cases at school must complete three. The first


Lying on the couch at home, her head back, Lise, a pupil in a small kindergarten section, has a hard time staying focused when her mother gives her a self-test.

“It's not always easy to motivate yourself to do the test, after that she's quite nice, she lets us do it.

Well, it's the second week that we've been doing it, it shouldn't be every week for 6 weeks, I think it would be more difficult, ”reacts Frédérique Guillerminet, Lise's mother.

Same song for Emilie Garcia-Daniel, mother of 2 children aged 3 and 7: “They were tested 4 times in 8 days.

It's a bit confusing because you don't know when it's going to end.

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450,000 students positive for Covid

Nearly 19,000 classes were closed at the weekend due to the Covid-19 epidemic, and more than 450,000 cases of Covid were confirmed among students. 30,000 among National Education personnel, according to figures released Friday by the ministry. The number of closed classes stood at 18,786 on Thursday, a new high since spring 2020, after 14,380 last week. This figure includes classes that are closed due to cases of Covid-19, and those that are closed due to unreplaced teacher absences. Added to this is the health protocol in schools, which has evolved several times since the beginning of January. From now on, students with contact cases at school must undergo three self-tests, on D0, D2 and D4.The obligation of an antigen test or PCR having been removed to lighten the rules.

Source: leparis

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