Schools and extracurricular establishments will remain closed, as of Monday and until March 14, due to the coronavirus, in nine municipalities of the Oise, including Creil and its agglomeration and Crépy-en-Valois, according to the prefectoral decree published Sunday night. The establishments of Crépy-en-Valois -in which a 60-year-old teacher from the college Jean de La Fontaine is the first Frenchman contaminated by Covid-19 to have succumbed- and Vaumoise, where this man lived and was a municipal councilor, are thus concerned. , according to this decree signed jointly by the prefect of Oise, Louis Le Franc, and the rector of the academy of Amiens, Stéphanie Dameron.
The measure also affects the small town of La Croix Saint-Ouen, near Compiègne, where the second inhabitant of Oise lives who has been diagnosed with the disease. The latter is currently hospitalized in Amiens in a "serious condition" . This fifties is a civilian working as a driver at the Creil military base, several of whose other personnel are contaminated.
The other cities affected by the school closings are Creil and the neighboring municipalities (Montataire, Nogent-sur-Oise, Villers-Saint-Paul) as well as Lamorlaye, bordering on Val d'Oise, and Lagny-le-Sec, bordering on Seine et Marne.
The decree emphasizes that these nine municipalities "include biologically confirmed and potentially linked cases of people affected by the epidemic" and "must therefore be subject to specific restrictive measures" . The residents of these municipalities were also invited from Saturday to limit their trips. Gatherings (markets, masses ...) are prohibited there.
