Lille (AFP)
Schools and extracurricular establishments will remain closed, as of Monday and until March 14, due to the coronavirus, in nine municipalities of the Oise, including Creil and its agglomeration and Crépy-en-Valois, according to the prefectoral decree published Sunday night.
The establishments of Crépy-en-Valois -in which a 60-year-old teacher from the college Jean de La Fontaine is the first Frenchman contaminated by Covid-19 to have succumbed- and Vaumoise, where this man lived and was a municipal councilor, are thus concerned. , according to this decree signed jointly by the prefect of Oise, Louis Le Franc, and the rector of the academy of Amiens, Stéphanie Dameron.
The measure also affects the small town of La Croix Saint-Ouen, near Compiègne, where the second inhabitant of Oise lives who has been diagnosed with the disease. The latter is currently hospitalized in Amiens in a "serious condition".
The other cities are Creil and neighboring municipalities (Montataire, Nogent-sur-Oise, Villers-Saint-Paul) as well as Lamorlaye, bordering on Val d'Oise, and Lagny-le-Sec, bordering on Seine-et-Marne. The 50-year-old hospitalized in Amiens is a civilian working as a driver at the Creil military base, several of whose other personnel are contaminated.
The decree stresses that these nine municipalities "include biologically confirmed and potentially linked cases of people affected by the epidemic" and "must therefore be subject to specific restrictive measures".
"Pupils domiciled in these communes, if they are schooled in another commune, are invited not to go to their establishment", asks Sunday evening the regional council, announcing that the "school transport services serving the establishments of these municipalities (targeted by the decree) will not be carried out ".
"The other services on the regular lines will be provided, but some connections cannot be provided," added the Region in a press release.
The residents of these municipalities were also invited from Saturday to limit their trips. Gatherings (markets, masses ...) are prohibited there.
The mayor of Crépy-en-Valois, Bruno Fortier, is contaminated and must stay at home, having "not many symptoms", according to his director general of services Jérôme Pin, to whom he should be asked, like other people having been in close contact with the city councilor, to stay at home for 14 days. A city councilor in her sixties, also contaminated, will be hospitalized.
According to Mr. Pin, the town hall will be closed on Monday, the sports halls were closed on Sunday and the cinema of the commune has been authorized to remain open. It was on Sunday evening, AFP journalists found.
"I think that many cases will appear in the coming days. I am not hospitalized because I am not" sick ", no fever ... I am just carrying this damn virus," wrote on Facebook Mr. Fortier.
In the catering room of a large chain, jars of hydraulic gel were available to staff and customers on Sunday evening.
On the railings of the school in Vaumoise, a small sign posted on Sunday the closure of the establishment "Monday March 2".
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