- On Facebook, a photo taken in a classroom claims to show the resumption of schooling for Chinese children after the recent lifting of confinement.
- We see students there with faces protected by a mask and at the desk surrounded by individual partitions.
- If this equipment is well used to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the snapshot was taken out of context since it was taken in Taiwan in early March.
Should we see a glimpse of what awaits French schoolchildren upon their return to school, planned (gradually) from May 11 and deconfinement in France?
Sitting at their desks, children with faces protected by a mask, raise their hands in front of their teacher, also equipped with this protection. But what strikes above all, it is the yellow cubic forms installed on each table, to better separate each pupil from his neighbor.
"Resumption of school in China ...", simply says the legend accompanying this photo shared more than 4,000 times on Facebook.
However, if China has lifted its containment measures related to the coronavirus recently, and these installations are well aimed at avoiding the spread of the disease, the snapshot was taken out of context since it was taken in Taiwan in early March.
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A simple reverse image search makes it possible to find the same photograph in one of an article from La Croix of March 6 and entitled "Taiwan manages the coronavirus in an exemplary manner".
The daily explains there how, at this stage of the epidemic, the small island of 23 million inhabitants and with the numerous exchanges with China - distant of a hundred kilometers - could boast of counting only 44 contaminations (for one single death) while the deaths in China already numbered in the thousands. And the Taiwanese strategy is bearing fruit in the long term since the island still had fewer than 400 cases and only six deaths in April, thanks in particular to lessons learned from the 2003 SARS epidemic.
Protective partitions
The credits for the illustration photo, taken by photographer David Chang, allow it to be found in the image bank of the EPA agency. And its legend clearly indicates in what context it was taken: "Students seated between partitions participate in a class by the teacher Chen Ting-Fang at the Dajia elementary school in Taipei, in Taiwan, on March 3, 2020. The school made the partitions, based on corrugated cardboard, to prevent infection with Covid-19 by saliva when the students speak, cough, sneeze, or have lunch in the room. "
In France, the Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, recently recalled that "not all schools will be open on Monday, May 11" and that respect for barrier gestures will be required in small groups of students. Who could wear masks, Jean-Michel Blanquer having indicated that it was "very possible" but that this question was "part of the things that we will decide over the next two weeks".
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