The sanitary rules for children at school could be lightened by the end of June, in particular for "meals, recreation or sport", estimates in the Journal du dimanche the president of the Scientific Council, Jean-François Delfraissy. This council of experts responsible for enlightening the government during the coronavirus crisis must also examine, "in June", the question of the return to September to see how the current heavy protocol "could be a little simplified, streamlined, in the light of current knowledge, "adds its president.
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"The situation is under control"
Contrary to a widespread idea at the beginning of the Covid-19 epidemic, children do not seem to be the main spreaders of the virus and seem less contagious than adults, according to the conclusions of French researchers. "Even if we continue to follow somewhat cumbersome rules, we could simplify them after school by the end of June: during meals, recess or sport," suggests Jean-François Delfraissy.
Thursday, Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer said he hoped that the health protocol could be relaxed "soon". Regarding the epidemic, which left nearly 30,000 dead in France, mainly among the elderly, "the situation is under control", says Jean-François Delfraissy.
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"We are in a paradigm shift, a new strategy for us"
And in case of a second wave, "it will probably be necessary to let the Covid run in the young population and try to protect, with their agreement, the most fragile, sick, precarious, or elderly," said the professor. "We are in a paradigm shift, a new strategy for us. It will be a question of managing the risk, more important in fragile populations. Without coercion but by appealing to individual responsibility", he continues.
"We are proposing an Ehpad plan" and "also a plan for precarious populations: homeless, migrants, people living below the poverty line, fairly widely affected," he said, acknowledging that the confinement of the entire population applied to from mid-March "was not a good decision but the least bad".
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End of Council work in early July?
"The Council would like to stop its work from the beginning of July," said its president. "The state services are fully operational. It is not healthy that a structure created from scratch to respond in an emergency continues," he said, adding that the Council could always meet again "if the health situation required it".