The lifting of restrictions did not last long in some schools.
The mask will be mandatory again from Monday in primary schools in 39 departments due to the resurgence of the Covid-19 epidemic, government spokesman Gabriel Attal announced on Wednesday (November 3).
"From next week, from the start of the school year, in the departments where the incidence rate has unfortunately stabilized above 50 per 100,000 inhabitants (...), the mask will again be made compulsory for the children of the schools concerned, ”explained Gabriel Attal after the Council of Ministers.
"This concerns for next Monday 39 departments where the mask was no longer mandatory for children," said the spokesperson, specifying that the Ministry of Education would communicate "in the coming hours" the list of territories where the mask will become mandatory again.
Soon about sixty departments concerned
The passage of the incidence rate above the threshold of 50 per 100,000 inhabitants automatically results in the return of the mask in primary schools, where it had been removed before the holidays in 79 departments.
Teachers had to continue to wear it.
"We have had a compass since the start of this crisis," said Gabriel Attal, "is that as soon as we can alleviate measures of constraint, we do it. Obviously, this principle applies in both directions and as soon as the situation is deteriorating, unfortunately we have to reactivate a number of measures. "
Even before the All Saints holidays, the mask had already become compulsory again for primary school pupils in Lozère.
This will therefore bring the departments where the students must wear it to around sixty.
With AFP
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