Half of the agents of the schools of Marseilles will have been tested with the coronavirus within the framework of a screening plan which did not reveal any positive case, but seven schools will not be able to reopen due to too many contamination of families d 'students, we learned on Thursday.
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"Out of 3,200 agents from schools in total, 1,100 have already been tested at the Mediterranean University Infection, as part of this detection program offered by the city," Yves Moraine, deputy of Jean-Claude Gaudin, the LR mayor of the Marseille city. "Knowing that about 10% of them have been tested elsewhere than at the IHU, almost half of the agents will have been tested by Monday and the reopening of the 470 nursery and primary schools in the city", a insisted the mayor of the 4th sector of Marseille (6th and 8th arrondissements).
"It reassures"
"Me, it reassures me to get tested," says Jeanine, in his forties, canteen staff in one of the city's schools. Same feeling in Nadia, even if she knows that things can quickly change: "We are negative today, but we can be positive tomorrow ...", she says, fatalist.
"Even if that means nothing, somewhere, it reassures", adds Patricia, "impatient to find soon + her + children", in the school where she works as Atsem (Specialized territorial agent for nursery schools).
"For the moment, there is zero positive test on these 1,100 controls," confirmed Henri Tissot-Dupont, doctor at the IHU and responsible for the organization of the massive test campaign led by the establishment led by the professor Didier Raoult.
In total, more than 29,000 people have come to be tested at the IHU Méditerranée Infection since the start of this new coronavirus crisis. Of this number, approximately 3,400 tested positive, 660 were hospitalized in the IHU services and 17 died, according to the latest figures given by the establishment.
"Currently, we still do 500 to 600 tests per day, against nearly 1,000 per day at the height of the crisis," said Dr. Tissot-Dupont: "And we have 3 to 7 positive cases per day, around by 1%, against 15% previously ”.
In addition, 7 schools in the underprivileged district of Malpassé in the north of Marseille will not open after a joint decision of the Regional Health Agency (ARS), the town hall and the rectorship, said the latter confirming information from the site information from Marsactu. Too many families of students are contaminated, said a source close. The schools will reopen with the agreement of the ARS.
