In absence of vaccination, students of 6th will be able to realize two autototes per week

Children will receive a box of “ten autototes that are to be realized with family”. Thursday, the Pfizer vaccine against CVIV-19 was approved for children aged 5 to 11 by the European Medicines Agency.

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The Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, announced, in the morning of Friday, November 26, on France Inter, that students of 6 e will have to realize, from Monday November 29, two autototes a week.

“The 6th classes are a special case because children are under 12 years old and are not vaccinated. I announce a new measure that we will take: the distribution of autototes to students of 6 e corresponding to two autototes per week, “said Mr. Blanquer. “We will give a box of ten autototes worth five weeks to the students of 6th (…). National education will provide these ten autototes who are to be done with family,” he said, confirming that they would be available from Monday.

However, the department has declared in the afternoon at the France-Presse Agency (AFP) that these two autototes per week will not be “not mandatory”.

The Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19 has been approved for children aged 5 to 11 by the European Medicines Agency, announced Thursday, November 25 this authority, paving the way for vaccination for this category of age in the European Union (EU).

This messenger RNA vaccine is already authorized for children over 12 years old in the twenty-seven EU countries. Outside the European continent, the Pfizer vaccine has already been approved for children aged 5 to 11 in a small number of countries, including the United States, Israel and Canada. In France, so far, children under 12 have been vaccinated only exceptionally.

In the primary, positive tested students will be isolated

The day before, the minister announced that there would be no more class closure in primary schools at the first case of coronavirus contamination detected in a student. Only those positive tested will be isolated. “As early next week, when a student is tested positive, all students in the class are tested in turn and only positive tested comrades stay at home,” said the minister, sealer the end of the closures class from the first case in a student. The government expands a tested measure since the beginning of October in ten departments (Aisne, Ariège, Côte-d’Or, Landes, Channel, Morbihan, Moselle, the Rhone, the Val- Oise and Var).

This measure has received the assent of the parents of students. “It is essential that children who are not affected by COVID can learn by being at school, it is even where we learns best,” said AFP Carla Dugault, co-chair of the Federation Tips from parents of students (CIPP).

The number of classes closed because of the COVID-19 epidemic this week amounted to 8,890, 1.7% of the country’s classes, announced Friday the Ministry of National Education. “It’s a lot, it’s important that it does not go too far. We were already up to 12,000 closed classes, I remind it,” said M. Blanquer on France Inter.

/Media reports.