COVID-19: port of mask at compulsory school in all departments from November 15th

So far, elementary schoolchildren had to wear the mask in 61 departments. As early as Monday, all France will be concerned.

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After twenty months of sanitary crisis and a return of all of the cough of the revival of the Covid-19 epidemic, all schoolchildren will have to put the mask from Monday, November 15, announced the Ministry of National Education Tuesday, November 9, in the wake of Emmanuel Macron’s television allowance. Anyway that all departments switches, or rocked, above the incidence rate of 50 CVIV-19 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, automatically climbing the levels of a health protocol designed on four levels.

Monday, November 8, they were 57 metropolitan departments and three ultramarine territories to apply level 2 (with the mask worn indoors by schoolchildren), and still 39 to follow level 1 (without elementary mask) when They were 78 in this case before the holidays of All Saints. Only one territory (the Mayenne) had seen the constraints lightened – he “rebasculate”, too, at the higher level of the protocol in a few days. Only one other, Guyana remains at Level 4, the highest.

Certificate on honor

The degree of vigilance is growing at school, while the government comes to seeing a controversial measure, imagined to “facilitate” the follow-up of the epidemic in schools. Tuesday, November 9, the Constitutional Council has censored the access of school and virological status of students. The provision, added by the government amendment to the law “sanitary vigilance” adopted on Friday, 5 November, had been strongly criticized during the readings of the text at the National Assembly and the Senate, and rejected by the latter.

The Constitutional Council considered, in a notice put online Tuesday at the end of the day, that the provisions of Article 9 of the Act bore” disproportionate infringement of the right to respect for privacy “, because the text did not plan to gather the consent of the students or their legal representatives and that he would have opened access to the medical information of the students to too many people. The Constitutional Council also insisted that the interest of this measure in the virus control strategy was too clearly defined.

A conclusion with which most of the actors in the school fall: since the school institution has managed the epidemic without lifting medical secret so far, the latter seemed to them not applicable. “We worked without, and it was not something that was claimed,” insists Audrey Chanonat, representative of the principal college at SNPDEN-UNSA. Since the start of the school year, students over the age of 12 provide a certificate of vaccination on honor to return to class after the detection of a CVIV-19 case.

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