To put an end to the systematic closures of classes.

Jean-Michel Blanquer announced on Tuesday that a new health protocol would be tested in primary schools in around ten departments.

In an opinion delivered in mid-September, the Scientific Council recommended that screening for Covid-19 be systematic and weekly in primary school and lead to only isolating positive cases in middle and high school.

“We are obviously very attentive to what the Scientific Council says, and therefore we will take this advice into account, by launching an experiment in around ten departments.

The experiment consists, each time there is a positive case, to test the whole class and to send home only those who are positive ”, indicated the Minister of Education on

Franceinfo

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“We'll see if that really changes the game.

But so it won't make a huge difference with what we're doing now, ”he added.

Launched "from the beginning of next week"

Currently, the protocol retained by the ministry provides that a case of Covid in a primary school class leads to a closure.

In the event of contamination at college or high school, students with unvaccinated contact cases must isolate themselves for one week.

This experiment will be launched "probably at the beginning of next week", specified the minister.

"In any case, we have already been hard at work with the Ministry of Health for many days".

It will start "in various departments to be able to compare," he said.

As part of this experiment, if parents refuse the test, the child "will be considered positive precisely for not having accepted the test," said Jean-Michel Blanquer.

“This is typically one of the problems posed by this type of experimentation.

But we're going to do it anyway ”.

Wearing the mask at the primary school lifted on October 4

On the number of classes closed due to the Covid-19 epidemic, the minister indicated that it had "fallen below 2,000 closed classes, which is obviously a fairly good figure since we had climbed to- above 3,000, 3,500 even ”.

Moreover, while the obligation to wear a mask in primary school will be lifted from October 4 in the departments least affected by the epidemic, Jean-Michel Blanquer indicated that the ministry would give "the complete list of departments concerned Thursday with the Ministry of Health, so that it is valid for Monday ”.

"The order of magnitude is probably between a third and half of the departments," he said.

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