Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer said Tuesday, September 7 that 545 classes were currently closed in France because of the Covid-19 epidemic, ie "
a little above 0.1%
" of they.
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“
Today, we have 545 closed classes in France.
We are therefore a little above 0.1%.
This is important data, which shows that for the moment, we are in a situation that resembles that of last year
, ”said Jean-Michel Blanquer, questioned on the start of the school year during questions to the government in the National Assembly.
My return went well"
On July 2, 374 classes were closed out of 528,400, or 0.07%, according to figures from the Ministry of National Education.
Coming back to the results of the start of the new school year, Blanquer underlined that "
on the whole of the territory, we can consider that today it went well, in the sense that the students were there, the teachers were there. and where we do not have too serious problems coming back
”.
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Nearly 12.3 million students returned to school on Thursday under the threat of the Delta variant of Covid-19, which raises many questions among parents and teachers.
For this start of the school year, the ministry has adopted the “
level 2
”
health protocol
(out of 4) which authorizes all students to be received face-to-face and requires them to wear a mask indoors, except in kindergarten.
A case of Covid-19 in an elementary school class leads to a closure, as in June.
In the event of contamination at college or high school, only students with contact cases who are not vaccinated must isolate themselves for one week.
