Despite the rebound risks of the COVID-19 epidemic in schools, ministers of education and health reaffirmed on Monday, their willingness to “sanctuarize school”.
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“The school is the last thing to close in a society”, according to the formula a little galvalized hammered, for almost two years of sanitary crisis, at the Ministry of Education. Even in the face of the overlooking of the Omicron Variant, the government intends to maintain Cape Town: Back to school will be fine, as expected, Monday, January 3rd.
“We will stay in the line fixed since the beginning of the pandemic: do not close [the institutions] as a last resort, defended the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, Monday, December 27 at the press conference. We will not postpone The start of the school year, we will not rock colleges and high schools in distancy. “The School Health Protocol remains set at Level 2 (out of 4) in the secondary level, at elementary level.
The hypothesis of an extension of the holidays had, however, found relays in recent days, and not only in the political circles where Valérie Pécresse, candidates the Republicans in the presidential election, seized: among Doctors and scientists, too, voices have risen to warning against the risk of contamination in schools, while a rebound is generally observed at every return of holidays.
“Unpublished wave. “
“The Minister of Education must cease his unacceptable negation: yes, the children are contaminating at school,” said Sunday, the Wiliam Dab epidemiologist in the columns of the Sunday newspaper. And to continue: “Jean-Michel Blanquer refuses to close the establishments, but is not able to secure the classes. But this virus is not without consequence on the youngest.”
Same diagnosis put forward, in the same weekly, by fifty health professionals signatories from an open letter to the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran: “We expect an unprecedented wave (…) Charge of children with pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome, as well as sequelae-related sequelae, in some cases, a lasting form of the disease, “they write.
They deliver, among other numbers, that of 300,000 children contaminated since November by COVID-19; or 800 children (under 10 years old) and 300 teenagers hospitalized in six weeks. To date, 190 children are hospitalized in France because of the COVID-19, of which 35 in resuscitation, opposed, Monday, Mr. Véran, speaking following the head of government. Figures to be compared with the 23,000 annual hospitalizations due to bronchiolitis, or 14,000 due to gastroenteritis.
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