Spread the tables by one meter, clean everything, take the temperature of the students, no mask in class ... The Academy of Medicine published this Saturday a battery of recommendations for the reopening of schools, scheduled from May 11, then that the coronavirus epidemic is still active all over the world.
Regarding masks, the Academy recommends that schools build up "a sufficient reserve of anti-projection masks (or alternative masks)". They should be distributed to adults (teachers, staff, parents) and students from the CP, "to wear during recreational activities outside the classroom and when leaving the school", but not in class.
Many amenities to plan
The Academy proposes to "arrange the schedules" for a reception "spaced" of the children, to ensure a spacing "of a minimum of one meter" between the class tables and "a secure arrangement of places" in the canteen. Recreations should be organized "in small groups, if possible with the same children", and parents and children should not be allowed to assemble at the exit.
The Academy also recommends "systematic and multi-daily handwashing with soap and water", the installation of distributors of hydroalcoholic solutions, the cleaning and disinfection several times a day of sanitary facilities, stair railings, tables in the classroom, door handles and teaching aids. To quickly detect any suspicious case of Covid-19, she also recommends taking the students' temperature each morning by a frontal thermometer, before entering the premises.
"Insist on barrier gestures" with children
The Minister of Health Olivier Véran estimated Friday that it was "very complicated" to wear masks to children and specified that there was "no scientific recommendation" in this sense. "I think for children we have to insist on barrier gestures, hand washing, coughing in the elbow," he said.
Before the opening, the National Academy of Medicine recommends training on barrier gestures for teachers and staff, "to relay for children". "The reopening of schools and nurseries must be gradual and framed by strict sanitary measures," warns the Academy. "The security measures proposed may seem insufficient or difficult to maintain by teachers and school staff if too hasty implementation neglects an essential and rigorous preparation".
With regard to crèches, the Academy also recommends that only one parent be accommodated in an airlock to take the temperature of the infant, and that he be sent home for fever, for medical advice. Childcare providers should also imperatively wear a mask and overcoat changed daily, and wash their hands between each infant when caring for and before preparing bottles.
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