They were the first and have a painful memory of them.
Just a year ago, in February 2020, the coronavirus was getting out of control in France and it was in Crépy-en-Valois, among its inhabitants, that it had started its terrible journey.
After first contaminating five Britons in Contamines-Montjoie in Haute-Savoie on February 8, 2020, then killing an 80-year-old Chinese seven days later in Paris, the virus has indeed become encysted in this commune of the Oise, north-east of Paris.
For the first time, the coronavirus was circulating, entering private and public schools in the city and then spreading over a good part of the department.
On the night of February 25 to 26, 2020, Dominique Varoteaux, a 60-year-old teacher from Jean-de-La Fontaine college was carried away.
For the first time, a Frenchman died of the Covid.
A shock for the country which was still unaware of the extent of the crisis which awaited it and which decreed a general containment,
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