In Brest, high school students put on the mask but the academy does not appreciate

• Finistère is the French department where the Covid-19 epidemic is picking up most strongly.

• Faced with the multiplication of cases, some directors of private schools in Brest have decided to return to wearing a compulsory mask.

• A choice which is not to the taste of the rectorate which has contacted the diocesan management of Finistère.

For the past few days, Finistère has been the French department where the incidence rate of Covid-19 has been the highest, with more than 1,500 positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

Not so surprising.

If Brittany has the best French vaccination coverage, it has also been less affected by the virus.

The inhabitants of the four departments have been less exposed to Covid-19 since its arrival on our territory in the spring of 2020. This beginning of the "sixth wave" has generated a large number of contact cases in the establishments of the Breton tip department.

To the point that some of them have decided to reintroduce the wearing of compulsory masks for students and staff.

According to

, two middle schools and a high school, all located in Brest, have decided on the return of the mask.

An initiative for the time being isolated but which goes against national decisions to abandon the wearing of masks indoors since March 14.

Contacted, the rectorate of Rennes obviously did not taste the Brest initiative.

“This unilateral and non-regulatory decision seems to be the work of a few Brest establishment managers from the private network under contract.

The academic authority has contacted the diocesan director of Finistère so that he can intervene with the heads of establishments of this network for a reminder of the rules of the health protocol applicable since March 14, according to the latest government provisions in force. specifies the academy at

.

According to the head of one of the establishments interviewed by

, several students and teachers were affected by Covid-19, in particular upon returning from a school trip.

High school students and staff would have themselves called for the return of the mask.

COVID/INCIDENCE RATE

As of 03/21, national: 898 (still rising sharply!)

Martinique: 1,837

Finistère: 1,528

Moselle: 1,500

Côtes-d'Armor: 1,450

Ardennes: 1,439

Cantal: 1,386

Bas-Rhin: 1,373

Meurthe- et-Moselle: 1,363 pic.twitter.com/uskWZwkACw

— ALERTES INFO (@ALERTS_INFO) March 21, 2022

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Long spared by the epidemic, Brittany had not seen its incidence rate drop as much as other French territories after the Omicron wave.

Simply because the infamous wave hit the area later and therefore took longer to dissipate.

On Friday, 64 classes were closed in the Rennes academy.

Just over 3,500 students were positive over the past 7 days out of a total of more than 600,000 students.

A low share (0.59%) but which increased slightly with nearly 500 new cases in twenty-four hours.

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