It will become mandatory for pupils
The French Prime Minister calls on his citizens to take responsibility and put on masks
Castex confirmed that the state will not pay for masks to families who do not need them. A.F.B.
Yesterday, French Prime Minister Jean Castex called on the French to show a "sense of responsibility" to put on masks, wishing that "everyone feels concerned in the battle against the epidemic," which is still spreading in the country.
Castex said on France Inter radio, “I never believed that the state could do everything and bear its share of responsibility, but everyone should feel that they are concerned in the battle against the epidemic,” at a time when France recorded more than 3000 cases of “Covid”. -19 »Yesterday. He added that "there is nothing to cause panic, we did not return to the situation we were in during April or May," but "you can see very well that something is happening."
Castex emphasized that "there is no element to my knowledge that allows saying that (Covid-19) has strongly retreated," noting that re-imposing a general isolation is not a "goal."
A few days before the return of the students to schools, the Prime Minister rejected calls to circulate the distribution of free masks in schools, stressing that "no country in the world" had taken such a measure.
He stated that vulnerable people for health or financial reasons would benefit from the freebies.
"We will not pay (the price for) masks for families who do not need them at all," he said, at a time when wearing masks will be mandatory for French students, starting next Tuesday, when lessons will resume.
Re-imposing a general isolation in France is not a "goal."
France recorded more than 3000 cases of "Covid-19" yesterday.