From the start of the school year on Monday, children over 6 years old will be required to wear the mask.

A new measure which intimidates some, but which is nevertheless necessary to curb the spread of the coronavirus epidemic.

According to the scientific council, there are 100,000 contaminations per day.

From Monday, elementary school students will return to school in masks, from 6 years old due to the speed of the spread of the coronavirus.

It was Jean Castex who announced it this Thursday morning before the National Assembly: the threshold for compulsory wearing has been lowered in the face of the rapid spread of the coronavirus.

Previously, only children over 11 were required to wear the mask.

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"I'm not used to the threads of the mask on my ears"

It is a gesture that will have to be included in the daily life of children, and it might not be easy to apply due to their age.

Virginie Saldmann, is a 7-year-old student in CE2 in Paris.

She does not see this announcement very well.

"Me in this period it puts me a little stress this story of mask. And then if we put it on, it means that the epidemic is getting even worse," said the child.

Rather, it is comfort that poses a problem for Alix, in CE1, in a school in Saint-André-lez-Lille, in the North.

"I think it's going to be a little weird. I'm not used to the threads of the mask on my ears."

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Previously reserved for children over eleven years old, the wearing of a mask is now widely extended.

Have doctors changed their minds on the issue of wearing masks at school for children?

"We have not changed our minds," replied Professor Robert Cohen, infectious disease specialist and pediatrician.

"What has changed is the epidemiological situation. When you have a low viral circulation, making them wear a mask seemed absolutely counterproductive to us. But we are facing a high level of circulation of the virus. We have said from the start. that in the event of strong viral circulation, wearing a mask could be considered from the age of 6 years. "