Relaxed protocol at school, bad weather and electricity prices: the information to remember this lunchtime

The info not to be missed

With thousands of classes closed and parents sometimes overworked, the health protocol of schools is adapting, announced Prime Minister Jean Castex on Monday evening.

Since this Tuesday, the parents of students no longer have to pick up their child immediately when there is contact, but at the end of the lessons.

Whereas previously, each identified student had to immediately undergo a PCR or antigen test, now a simple self-test - which will have to be repeated on D +2 and D +4 - will have to be performed.

The head of government also specified that a single certificate of honor, certifying that the first self-test is negative, would be sufficient for a return in progress.

The three self-tests will be free, thanks to a certificate issued by the school.

They will continue to be distributed only to pharmacies, which should receive 11 million new kits within the week.

But beware: it is only from Friday that the self-test becomes possible as the first in the series of three tests.

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Since the start of the year, schools have been inundated with Covid-19 cases.

 We have around 10,000 closed classes,” Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer announced on BFMTV on Tuesday morning.

50,000 students are currently infected.

“Île-de-France is much more affected than the rest of the country,” he said.

What to also remember

• Bad weather and risk of flooding: eight departments of the South-West in orange vigilance.

  In its morning bulletin, after the episode of bad weather lasting more than 48 hours, Météo France maintains its orange alert on seven departments for risk of flooding: Landes, Lot-et-Garonne, Tarn-et-Garonne, the Gers, the Hautes-Pyrénées, the Haute-Garonne and the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

  It also adds the Gironde to this vigilance.

• Covid-19: the Omicron wave will sweep over Europe, warns the WHO.

  "At this rate, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) predicts that more than 50% of the region's population will be infected with Omicron in the next six to eight weeks," the director of the WHO Europe, Hans Kluge, during an online press conference, stressing that this variant had mutations "allowing it to adhere more easily to human cells, and which can infect even people who have been previously infected or vaccinated".

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• The chilling confessions of Cédric Jubillar.

  Incarcerated in Toulouse, the man suspected of being involved in the disappearance of his wife Delphine, would have confided having killed the latter to one of his fellow prisoners, according to our information.

  The 34-year-old plasterer is also suspected of having tried to move his wife's body, with the help of his current partner.

  The investigative chamber of the Toulouse Court of Appeal is also examining a new request for release on Tuesday.

The info that concerns you

Electricity tariffs will not change in 2022. "We are committed to protecting the French by offering them a tariff shield and we will keep this commitment", confirmed the Minister of Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili, guest of the morning of BFMTV.

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"The increase in electricity will be maintained at 4% as announced, throughout 2022," she said, in accordance with government promises made at the end of last year.