Parents will no longer need to check if they live in a department where wearing a mask is compulsory in elementary school.

From Monday, this health measure will indeed be in force throughout France, the Ministry of Education announced on Tuesday, after President Emmanuel Macron's speech.

From November 15, “all the departments move to level 2 of the health protocol”.

Since the start of the All Saints holidays, students from CP to CM2 have put back the mask in 39 metropolitan departments, as well as in Reunion, bringing to 61 departments in total the number of those where it is mandatory (57 metropolitan departments and four ultramarines).

Announced last week by government spokesman Gabriel Attal, the return of the mask concerned "the departments where the incidence rate has unfortunately stabilized above 50 per 100,000 inhabitants".

"The fifth wave has begun"

The government announced in September the end of wearing masks for primary school students in the departments least affected by the epidemic. At the beginning of October, 47 departments had been able to remove it, followed by others in the following weeks. In total, the wearing of masks at school had been lifted before All Saints' Day in 79 departments, before coming back in force with the resumption of the Covid-19 epidemic.

Faced with the epidemic rebound, Emmanuel Macron spoke to the French on Tuesday to talk about the health situation, in particular putting pressure on seniors to be injected with a booster dose, on pain of losing their health pass.

"The fifth wave has started in Europe in the United Kingdom, in Germany, where more than 30,000 new additional cases are recorded every day", noted the head of state, who argued a "situation in France more favorable" , but a 40% increase in the incidence rate in one week.

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