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The new protocol for schools in France states that a positive student’s peers will be able to continue their lessons face to face.
Since last Tuesday, there are new rules in case of contact with students with SARS-CoV-2 in kindergartens and elementary schools.
While 2,000 classrooms and 76 primary schools are currently closed across the country, the French Education Minister has announced that health measures for COVID-19 will be relaxed.
From now on, identifying a student who tests positive for COVID-19 will no longer automatically lead to their class being closed.
Schools in France: classes closed only if there are 3 positive students
Therefore, as of September 22, the new protocol is launched in schools in France, which should favor lessons without too many interruptions.
If a student has symptoms and passes the exam, only that student will be quarantined for seven days.
Other students, even if they have been in contact with him, will not be obliged to do the same. To close a class, three cases from different families must be identified. Even teachers who come into contact with a positive student should not isolate themselves.
The stated aim of these measures, which arrive three weeks after the start of the school year, is to avoid unnecessary closures and to keep as many classrooms and schools open in France as possible, even if the epidemic reappears. growing.
The decision is based on a new opinion of theSuperior Council of Public Health (HCSP) Thursday, September 17.
According to the team of about 100 scientists and doctors, children are unlikely to develop severe forms of the disease and they are not very active in transmission either.
“The risk of transmission exists primarily from adult to adult and from adult to child, but rarely from child to child or child to adult.Wrote the HCSP.
Experts trust the publication of studies showing that children are not the main vectors of the virus.
“In 9 out of 10 cases, sick adults contaminate children, not the other way around“Says Robert Cohen, vice president of the French Society of Pediatrics.
Cohen conducted research with 27 other pediatricians on 605 children under the age of 15 in the Paris region.
In June, a similar study, funded by the Pasteur Institute and conducted on 1,340 people in Crépy-en-Valois, highlighted the same findings: There is no significant transmission of the virus among children or from children to teachers.
No to mass testing of students and teachers: sociability and school life must take priority
Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer opposed the idea of carrying out PCR tests for all teachers, as requested by the mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi.
“It does not make sense, at this point the test must be repeated every day.“, Specify. According to the minister, today the priority must be to compensate for school delay.
Everywhere there are more and more reports from teachers describing a chaotic start to the school year, with children whose standards have deteriorated dramatically.
The general secretary of the first primary teachers’ union (SNUipp-FSU), Guislaine David, told “Le Figaro” that “habits are difficult to correct. Some students get lost in community life. Others have a weakened attention span“.
Therefore, the number of closed classes and schools is expected to decrease in the coming days. It is still an obligation for teachers to wear surgical masks, while it is not necessary for younger students.
It is compulsory only from the age of 11, that is, from the sixth year, which in France is the first year of secondary school.
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Graduated in Modern Literature for written communication, with a thesis on sports and communication that obtained the “Stefano Benetton” scholarship.
I worked for several years as a publicist in the editorial offices of the Biellese newspapers.
I have two masters in Italian literature and history, in particular on Dante Alighieri, whom I consider a spiritual guide.
Passionate reader of historical novels, fantasy and chivalric poems, I am doing a saga project.
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