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Covid-19: the school challenged to stand up to Omicron

2022-01-02T19:54:29.246Z


DECRYPTION - Jean-Michel Blanquer specified the test regime applicable for the start of the school year in order to allow a contact case child to return to school. Teachers and parents hope that the institution will withstand the announced shock.


In an interview published Sunday afternoon on the

Parisian

website

, the Minister of National Education outlined the measures that will come into force from this Monday in schools.

While France is experiencing record contamination rates with the Omicron variant, the minister is planning on a daily assessment of

"several thousand students"

tested positive from the start of the school year.

In this context, the objective is affirmed once again:

"to keep the school open in health conditions that are as secure as possible"

.

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The first measure of this new protocol, the strengthening of "contact tracing", already mentioned last week, but without details.

This reinforced policy

"will involve the multiplication of tests and the participation of families in this mechanism based on accountability"

, indicates Jean-Michel Blanquer.

The last protocol in force stipulated that, as soon as a positive case appeared in a class, all the pupils made an antigen test or PCR and presented a result ...

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Source: lefigaro

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