Covid-19: 6,000 classes are closed in France, according to the Minister of Education – Franceinfo

“The school environment is not particularly contaminating,” said the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, before the National Assembly.

Posted the 11/23/2021 5:47 PM

Update the 11/23/2021 6:41 PM

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Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer said on Tuesday 23 November that 6,000 classes were currently closed in France due to positive Covid-19 cases. Last Friday, just over 4,000 classes were involved. These are classes “from primary school in particular, where we deploy saliva tests”, specified the minister before the National Assembly. “I recall that last year, at the height of the epidemic, when we managed to keep the school open, we were still at 12,000 closed classes”, he stressed.

“Our situation is more favorable than in previous waves because we are a vaccinated people. We can only encourage us to go further.”@jmblanquer calls for “testing, alerting, protecting” and insists on “respecting barrier gestures.” # Covid19 #DirectAN #QAG pic.twitter.com/xHWBPBuSK8

– LCP (@LCP) November 23, 2021

The Minister of National Education called for “Continue” apply the strategy “test, alert, protect” and insisted on “respect for barrier gestures”. “There are certain lapses in society”, lamented Jean-Michel Blanquer, stressing however that he was “lesser” in the school environment. “The school environment is not particularly contaminating”, he concluded.

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