“We will have to wait for classes and schools to close. This is the indispensable result of the surveillance that we are carrying out. We closed quite easily because we were prudent, ”said the minister to BFM TV, which at the end of last week had indicated the closure of 22 schools and about a hundred classes.
Jean-Michel Blanquer explained that this closure of a small part of the country’s approximately 60,000 schools is something he hoped for and that it will “necessarily increase” even more, “probably” in the coming weeks, since it is enough for “three adults” to be sick. justify the closure of the class or school.
“It is normal that, in a society affected by the epidemic, schools take this phenomenon into account,” he said, noting that, for the moment, they will not implement diagnostic tests from saliva samples in schools, because they are not yet reliable.
France records 30,726 deaths due to covid-19, in a total of almost 329 thousand cases.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed at least 889,498 deaths and infected more than 27.1 million people in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
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