End of mask for primary pupils in 47 departments

From Monday, CP Children at CM2 will be able to withdraw their mask in the areas of the least affected metropolis by COVID-19. Teachers, they must keep it.

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The masks will fall, from Monday, October 4, for the elementary students of 47 French departments. On 22 September, the Government spokesman had announced that the obligation would be lifted in the departments “where the incidence rate stabilizes below the threshold of 50 per 100,000 inhabitants”. These departments thus spend at level 1 of the protocol, which has 4.

Are concerned by the end of the obligation: the Aisne, the Allier, the Ardennes, the Aveyron, the Calvados, the Cantal, the Charente-Maritime, the Corrèze, the Côte-d’Or, the Creuse, the Dordogne, the Eure, the Finistère, the Gers, the Indre, the Indre-et-Loire, the Isère, the Landes, the Loir-et-Cher, the Loire, the Haute-Loire, the Loire-Atlantic, Loiret, Lozère, Maine-et-Loire, Channel, Marne, Haute-Marne, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Morbihan, Nièvre, Orne, Pas -De-Calais, Haute-Saone, Saone-et-Loire, Sarthe, Seine-Maritime, Deux-Sèvres, Somme, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne, Vendée, Vienna, Vosges and Yonne.

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On the other hand, for the primary staff in these same departments, “the mask is always worn by adults involved with students”, including the “National Education and Local Communities Personnel, AESH ( accompanying students with disabilities), said Thursday the ministry.

“Vigilance”

“we range the mask in some places, but we have interest not to put it too far,” says Stéphane Hook, Secretary General of the SE-UNSA, for whom “there is a vigilance to have because we all know that the epidemic can leave with disturbing variants “.

In colleges and high schools, the rules of the port of the indoor mask for staff and adolescents remain unchanged.

The SNUIPP-FSU, the first primary union, denounced Thursday in a statement “the inconsistency and lack of projection of the management of the sanitary crisis in the schools” and advocates “prudence”, facing the lifting From the mask for primary pupils in these 47 departments.

Even finding for Catherine Nave-Bekhti, General Secretary of the SGEN-CFDT, which is said “more than reserved about some list departments that have a high incidence rate in small”. “It will be necessary for use precautions such as classes or the provision of sufficient numbered protective masks for teachers are respected,” she adds.

New health protocol coming

In parallel, on the contamination pane, the SNUIPP-FSU “asks the Ministry a rise in salivary tests for the 6 million primary pupils, which are for the moment proposed only at height. of 300,000 per week, while it would be necessary 20 times more to set up the recommendations of the Scientific Council “.

Currently, a case of COVID-19 in a primary class leads to a closure. But the schools of ten departments – including five in the departments without mask for schoolchildren – should experiment at a date not fixed a new health protocol: it will be not to close a class from the first positive case, and to test All students, insulating only positive cases.

Are concerned with this experimentation: Aisne, Ariège, Côte-d’Or, Landes, Channel, Morbihan, Moselle, Rhone, Val-d’Oise and Var. In the event of college or high school contamination, only students Cases not vaccinated contacts must beolated oneself a week.

Thursday, just under 1,700 classes were closed because of the COVID-19 epidemic, or 0.32% of the country’s classes, announced Friday the Ministry of National Education.

/Media reports.