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A. GELEBART / 20 MINUTES

"We were anxious about that", the fears of a teacher from the Lycée Montaigne in Mulhouse proved to be justified.

“Several positive cases with the South African variant” were indeed detected in this establishment as well as in the Blaise Pascal high school in Colmar in the Haut-Rhin, announced Tuesday the rectorate of the Academy of Strasbourg.

This has resulted in the “isolation of a significant number of education personnel, students and agents”.

"Following a more active circulation of the virus and the identification of variants, we were led to take specific isolation measures" which concern the staff and students of these two establishments, announced the academy.

"These decisions will reassure everyone"

“There are a lot of colleagues who were very concerned, and the students too.

I discussed this yesterday with a class, they were worried.

So I think these decisions will reassure everyone, ”explained the professor from Mulhouse.

In his high school, the teaching staff was informed Monday of the detection of the South African variant in a second grade student.

Despite these isolation measures, the two establishments have not closed their doors and will continue to welcome face-to-face students in preparatory classes for grandes écoles and BTS, as well as students in the vocational stream at Lycée Blaise Pascal. .

Students in general and technological pathways are placed in "distance learning continuity".

These measures will apply for seven days, or until February 16 inclusive, "unless the situation were to change in the meantime," said the rectorate.

Suspicion of a variant for almost a quarter of new cases in the region

According to the preliminary results of a flash investigation conducted on positive samples on January 27, unveiled by the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of the Grand-Est, 23.7% of new coronavirus infections corresponded to a suspected variant, British, South African or Brazilian in the region.

These results, obtained by so-called “screening” tests, still had to be confirmed by genotyping.

In addition, as of February 5, 82 cases of variants had been detected within clusters of Covid-19 in the Grand-Est region, according to the ARS: 62 cases of British variants and 20 cases of South African or Brazilian variants.

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