No school for 14 days. As the coronavirus epidemic spread like wildfire in Italy in a few days, infecting more than 280 people and killing seven according to the last available report, children returning from the north of the "boot" are requested not to return to school during the incubation time of the Covid-19. A precautionary measure that applies in particular in a primary school in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, where two students are concerned.
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A precautionary measure
The two girls, schooled in CM2, returned from holidays in northern Italy with their parents. After resuming classes normally on Monday, the instructions from the Ministry of Health changed the situation. The school administration therefore posted this new watchword in front of the school entrance and even sent it by email to all the other parents. "If you and your child have stayed in China, South Korea, Italy in the regions of Lombardy or Veneto, for 14 days after the return, your child cannot be taken into school," reads the microphone from Europe 1 Léandro, who has a son attending primary school in the same school.
"It scares me even"
"It doesn't reassure me, it even scares me, but I don't know if there is a problem," he adds. Understandable concern, but the Ministry of Health insists that it is at this stage a precautionary measure which has also been applied for two other Parisian schoolchildren in the 8th and 10th arrondissement of the capital. In addition, eight high school students from the Paul-Lapie establishment in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine) are also concerned after having stayed in Veneto, while five students and three teachers from a music conservatory in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, returned Monday from Lombardy, were invited to stay at home for 14 days.
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As for knowing why the isolation advocated by the government concerns children, and not their parents, the ministry considers that it would be too complicated to make them respect health instructions (wear a mask and avoid contact with people as much as possible. other people). The choice of caution is therefore not to bring them to school.