As students in zone B prepare to start their winter holidays, the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer was the guest of Sud Radio, this Friday, February 4, to take stock of the situation. epidemic in schools.
And the trend is rather “
slightly down
”: “
Today we have exactly 16,836 classes closed
”, announced the minister, recalling that “
we have experienced levels above 20,000
”.
Regarding the infected students, Jean-Michel Blanquer mentioned the figure of “
410,000 over seven cumulative days
”.
“
A significant figure
”, but here too in decline, since “
we have already been at more than 500,000
”, argued the minister.
"
We were on a plateau for two or three weeks in January, and now there is a small downtrend, a bit like we expected
," he said.
“
It obviously remains high, but the trend is rather going in the right direction
”.
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Among the most affected regions, Jean-Michel Blanquer named the south-west, but also the Grand-Est, "
a little more contaminated than Île-de-France
", which was "
much more there is two weeks
”.
"
This downward trend is still observable in most regions of France
," he insisted.
