The president of the Hauts-de-France region, Xavier Bertrand (ex-LR), has promised to provide a free reusable fabric mask to each high school student and apprentice after the government imposed the "systematic" wearing of the mask in the classroom. courses in college and high school. "In addition to the masks distributed during the #UnMasquePourChacun operation, the @hautsdefrance Region will provide all high school students and apprentices in public and private establishments with a reusable fabric mask in order to allow a re-entry in the best sanitary conditions," announced Monday on Twitter the president of the Regional Council Xavier Bertrand (ex-LR).
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270,000 high school students and 40,000 apprentices concerned
The region has about 270,000 high school students and 40,000 apprentices. Thursday evening on France 2, the Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer ruled out any postponement of the start of the school year but toughened the protocol by announcing that "the wearing of the mask will be (it) systematic from middle school, and not only when there is no physical distance, in confined spaces ”. Visiting a school in the Oise on Friday, the minister assured that the mask could be provided free of charge to "families in great difficulty".
According to Xavier Bertrand's cabinet, the region (competent for high schools) will distribute, under conditions that remain to be defined, a free mask for each high school student, regardless of their social condition. According to the same source, these masks come from the stock constituted during the confinement and since the deconfinement with Résilience, which presents itself as "a group of national scope bringing together textile SMEs, integration companies and adapted companies working for the relocation of the textile industry in France ".