During a visit to a primary school on Monday, Emmanuel Macron spoke with students.

On this occasion, he mentioned several possibilities regarding the relaxation of health measures.

The head of state thus declared that he wanted the reopening of the terraces to be possible as planned in mid-May.

Faced with many questions from students in a CM2 class at Paul Cézanne school in Melun (Seine-et-Marne), he explained that the lifting of restrictions would be done "very slowly".

To a girl deeming the curfew "a little annoying", Emmanuel Macron assured that the government would "try to shift it a bit because 7 pm is very early".

The stages of the reopening schedule will soon be given

Government spokesman Gabriel Attal said Monday morning that the president would speak "soon" to the French to "give them the stages of the reopening schedule" of certain terraces and places of culture scheduled for "mid-May" .

After three weeks of closure, this re-entry, which precedes by one week that of face-to-face or half-gauge secondary schools and high schools, is accompanied by a strengthening of the health protocol with in particular the closure of classes as soon as a Covid-19 case.

"With the weather getting hotter, the fact that we are vaccinating more and more people and that we have reduced the number of cases with the efforts of the last few weeks, we should gradually reopen things slowly from the beginning. of the month of May ”, assured the president, accompanied by the Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer.

"What we want to do is take it slowly to prevent it from starting again," he insisted.

"We will have to do the saliva tests"

“I'm very glad you picked up, you look great.

You have to be careful to follow the rules, wash your hands and wear the mask.

We will have to do the saliva tests to be sure that no one is sick, ”he explained to the students.

To his question: "Are you happy to come back physically?"

", The majority of the students answered" yes ", even if one of them admitted preferring to work at home with" the help of Google and (his) sister ".

"Get vaccinated every year, like the flu"

When asked a child about the restrictions in the playgrounds, he promised that "in a few weeks" he could "play with friends from other classes" and not just those in his class.

Responding to several questions from students on the vaccination campaign, Emmanuel Macron indicated that, even if "we are not there yet", "the question will arise" for children and adolescents and that it is possible that it is necessary in the future "to be vaccinated every year, as for the flu".

The negative impact of the first confinement "caught up"

Emmanuel Macron spoke afterwards with teachers, who explained to him that they had "caught up" the negative impact of the first confinement and that the evaluations showed "no drop in results" compared to the previous year.

He assured one of them, who asked him to "reopen the castles" to visits, that the objective was to reopen cultural places "with limited gauges and privileged access for schools from mid-year. -may ".

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