Jean-Michel Blanquer, Minister of National Education.
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To help medical personnel perform saliva tests which must be deployed on a massive scale in schools, the National Education will recruit 1,700 students, announced the Minister, Jean-Michel Blanquer, on Tuesday on France Inter.
"We are going to recruit 1,700 mediators, who will be students in medicine, pharmacy, or in other fields, to help the personnel mobilized to carry out these tests", declared Jean-Michel Blanquer.
#Tests #Salivaires - @jmblanquer announces, from today, the #recruitment of "1,700 mediators (students in medicine, pharmacy or in other fields) in order to support the mobilized personnel" # le79Inter pic. twitter.com/JEpQLoXuOH
- France Inter (@franceinter) March 2, 2021
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The Minister of National Education specified that these students will be "paid" to help carry out saliva tests "between now and the end of June".
These tests will be carried out by "health personnel" and not by teachers, he reiterated, when the latter feared to be called upon.
The minister estimates that France has the logistical means to reach by mid-March the objective of 300,000 tests per week for the whole of France.
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