The health protocol will be relaxed again in schools, announced Prime Minister Jean Castex on Monday, January 10, invited at 8 p.m. in the Journal Télévisé de France 2. When a contact case is declared in a class, the children will not have no more PCR or antigen testing, which will have the effect of “
unclogging
” laboratories and pharmacies: three self-tests will suffice.
"
The three self-tests will be free
," said the Prime Minister.
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Jean Castex also announced that, when a positive case is declared in a class, "
we will not immediately ask the parents to come and pick up their child, we will wait until the end of the day
".
Finally, a third "
simplification device
" was announced by the Prime Minister: a single certificate from the parents will suffice to prove that a child is negative.
"
10,453 classes are closed today
", or 2% of classes in total, also revealed Jean Castex, who wishes at all costs to keep schools open.
"
Indescribable mayhem
"
The health protocol in schools, effective since January 3, required students to be tested three times in four days, if a positive case is detected in their class: first via an antigen or PCR on the day of the test. announcement, with a certificate to be given to the school, then via self-tests on D + 2 and D + 4.
The measure, turning into a headache for many parents and for saturated pharmacies, had already been slightly revised last week: students no longer had to complete a new complete course if a new positive case appeared in their class in a deadline less than seven days.
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With this new relief, Jean Castex tries to convince unions of teachers and parents of angry students.
Snuipp-FSU, the first primary teachers' union, and SE-Unsa, joined by Snes-FSU, Snalc, CGT Educ'action, SUD Education, FO and CFDT, called for a national strike on Thursday, January 13. to an "
indescribable mess
" and "
a strong feeling of abandonment among the staff
".
For its part, the Federation of parents' councils (FCPE) called not to "
send children to school
" Thursday, stressing that "it
is high time to put the person of the child and this that he lives in the protocol of isolation in the center of the chessboard
”.
