Jean-Michel Blanquer, March 14, 2020 in Paris. - Thomas SAMSON / AFP

If the colleges in the green zones reopened on Monday morning, some schools had to close after just one week. According to the Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, 70 cases of Covid-19 have been identified in the 40,000 nursery and primary schools reopened in France since May 11.

Invited by RTL, this Monday morning, Jean-Michel Blanquer gave an update on the reopening of nursery and primary schools last week: 70 cases of coronavirus were detected in the 40,000 establishments opened since May 11, causing the closure immediately from the schools concerned.

đź’¬ # Deconfinement # schools: "Out of 40,000 schools that have reopened, there are 70 cases of # COVID19. Cases that are declared almost every time outside of school", specifies @jmblanquer, Minister of National Education and youth, guest of @VenturaAlba in #RTLMatin pic.twitter.com/qo9i631RmK

- RTL France (@RTLFrance) May 18, 2020

Closures, "application of the strict sanitary protocol"

These closings, which occurred in Mayenne, in Finistère, in Cantal, in Haute-Garonne, in Indre-et-Loire, in Hérault or even in Nice, are "the illustration of the fact that we are strict, as we had announced it, "he explained, adding:" Almost every time there are cases that arise outside of school, as in the recent examples given in connection with slaughterhouses ".

It was "inevitable but it remains a minority," said the minister. "The fact that we close is the application of the strict health protocol," he insisted. Asked about the children who have not returned to school, Jean-Michel Blanquer said that "as regards primary school, it is around 70% of the pupils who continue to take distance courses". According to him, "the goal is that all children have resumed contact with school".

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