At the Nîmes police academy (Archives) -
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On Wednesday, the prefecture services indicated to
20 Minutes
that around thirty positive cases of Covid-19 had been identified, in recent days, at the Nîmes police school.
The epidemic is worsening: in a press release released on Friday, the prefecture indicates that around sixty cases of students affected by the coronavirus have now been identified, "despite significant screening measures, barrier gestures and isolation" .
In order to avoid any risk of the virus spreading, "the school will be closed for eight days and fully disinfected during this period", we learned on Friday.
Positive people should stay confined to school
This home would have been declared for fifteen days within this establishment which trains future peacekeepers.
"A massive campaign of screening by antigen test is launched this afternoon [this Friday] and concerns both students and permanent staff, indicates the prefecture.
It will continue tomorrow [Saturday].
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Students who test negative will be allowed to return to their homes in order to isolate themselves.
"A new test (...) will be carried out seven days after or as soon as symptoms appear (...) The return to [school] would be conditional on the production of a negative test", continues the prefecture.
Students affected by Covid-19 will, for their part, be confined to school, and will undergo a new test "to determine the presence of a variant".
In October, images of school students partying and braving the curfew, amid the Covid-19 epidemic, created outrage.
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