Paris (AFP)
UDI president and deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis Jean-Christophe Lagarde wrote to Emmanuel Macron on Monday to ask him for "the immediate closure of schools, colleges and high schools" in his department.
Saliva tests and the multiplication of cases of Covid "demonstrate a very active circulation of the virus" in schools, underlines Mr. Lagarde, deploring that the executive "does not seem to take the measure of things or the decisions to match. of the situation".
"Everything suggests today that school (...) has become an accelerator of viral spread", he adds in this letter consulted by AFP.
This is why the deputy asks the head of state "to decide on the immediate closure of schools, colleges and high schools in Seine-Saint-Denis before it is too late", because the spread of the virus "goes back naturally in families and risks exploding our hospital system ".
In Seine-Saint-Denis, a department where the incidence rate of the coronavirus is the highest in France, some teachers exercised their right of withdrawal at the end of last week, in particular at the Eugène-Delacroix high school in Drancy where 22 classes are closed Monday due to a very degraded health situation.
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