“We are managing the situation which resembles that of last year.
"Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer said on Tuesday that 545 classes were currently closed in France because of the Covid-19 epidemic," a little above 0.1% "of them , less than a week after the start of the school year.
The number of closed classes "is an important data, which shows that for the moment, we are in a management of the situation which resembles that of last year", declared Jean-Michel Blanquer, questioned on the return to school. during questions to the government in the National Assembly.
On July 2, 374 classes were closed out of 528,400, or 0.07%, according to figures from the Ministry of National Education.
A strict health protocol
Nearly 12.3 million students returned to school last Thursday under the threat of the Delta variant of Covid-19, which raises many questions among parents and teachers. Coming back to it, Jean-Michel Blanquer underlined that "on the whole of the territory, we can consider that today it went well, in the sense that the students were there, the teachers were there and where we don't have too big problems coming up ”.
For this start of the school year, the ministry has adopted the “level 2” health protocol (out of 4) which authorizes all students to be received face-to-face and requires them to wear a mask indoors, except in kindergarten. A case of Covid-19 in an elementary school class leads to a closure, as in June. In the event of contamination in middle or high school, only students with contact cases who are not vaccinated must isolate themselves for one week.
