End of the mask at primary school in 12 additional departments - France 24

Paris (AFP)

Wearing a mask will no longer be compulsory for students in primary schools in 12 additional departments from Monday, according to a list published Thursday in the Official Journal.

This concerns Ain, Ariège, Charente, Cher, Drôme, Gard, Hérault, Moselle, Haut-Rhin, Var, Haute-Vienne and Seine-et-Marne.

The mask, on the other hand, becomes compulsory again for primary school pupils in Lozère.

The new departments are added to the 67 others affected by this measure for pupils in the five years of primary school (CP to CM2), since October 4.

Primary school students wore the mask at school for nearly a year, but the obligation is lifted in the departments "where the incidence rate stabilizes below the threshold of 50 per 100,000 inhabitants".

Teachers must continue to wear it.

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