The Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer told the National Assembly on Tuesday that 6,000 classes are currently closed in France, against just over 4,000 last Friday.
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These are classes "
in primary school in particular, where we deploy saliva tests
," said the minister.
"
As I speak to you, 6000 classes are closed and I recall that last year, at the height of the epidemic, when we managed to keep the school open, we were still at 12,000 closed classes
", a- he said.