Covid in schools in Paris: and now, the use of system D?

The numbers speak for themselves.

This Monday, at the start of the day in Paris, the city had 156 closed classes and in a few hours, in the course of the afternoon, they were 275 to have to send students home because of the Covid.

"I do not know how far we are going to go", worries Anne Souyris deputy (EELV) to the mayor of Paris in charge of Health, her eyes riveted on the lifts which are made in her office throughout the day. .

“Especially since the protocol of the Ministry provides for the closure of the class only if a positive case is detected in the children.

If it is the teacher who is concerned, all his students risk being dispatched to other classes, which will encourage mixing, which is however totally inadvisable!

»Emphasizes the elected.

Schools are shutting down

“In the greatest improvisation, new closures intervened throughout the day.

The uncertainty of the next day has now become the rule ”, underlines for his part Patrick Bloche, deputy (PS) in charge of Education at the town hall of Paris.

The situation is so fluctuating that on Monday evening, the City did not have the means to give a consolidated figure on the cascading closures over this first day of the week.

"At the end of the afternoon, I was told of the case of 15 closed establishments", underlines Ms. Health of the City.

Friday evening, the counters of the rectorate indicated 4 closed school structures.

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In the kindergarten of Renaudes (17th century) where two classes had been closed from the week of March 15 to 20 and a saliva screening organized last week, the school was finally closed on Friday evening.

Enough to leave parents on weekends to organize themselves.

But they don't all have that much time ahead of them.

And now, many of them are hanging from their mailboxes and phones watching for news from their child's school or college to know if overnight their toddlers will be confined to their homes.

It is resourcefulness for some mayors

Elected officials also juggle this set of uncertainties.

Ariel Weil the mayor (PS) of Paris-Center had to improvise a cold meal service to replace the chef and three members of the canteen staff detected positive.

"In two small schools, the canteen had to be closed, we informed the parents and at the Saint-Merri school, which welcomes 500 children, we were able to organize, thanks to the help of the town hall of Xe and the Monoprix de Saint-Maur who provided us with water and cutlery, a meal service for 300 children ”.

Combination on the back and charlotte on the head, the mayor and several of his deputies packed the food then distributed to toddlers.

“The chef alone prepared 70 hot meals for kindergartens,” greets the mayor of the 4th arrondissement.

“We manage from day to day and we will do everything to manage, but objectively, it's all rubbish!

»Ariel Weil observes.