Wearing a mask will again be compulsory in elementary school from Monday throughout France, the Ministry of Education announced on Tuesday, November 9, after President Emmanuel Macron's speech.
"From next Monday, all departments go to level 2 of the health protocol", with "new wearing of the mask for all students" of the elementary school, the ministry said in a statement sent to AFP.
Since the start of the All Saints holidays this Monday, students from CP to CM2 have put back the mask in 39 metropolitan departments where they had removed it, as well as in Reunion, bringing to 61 departments in total the number of those where it is compulsory (57 metropolitan departments and four overseas).
Announced last week by government spokesman Gabriel Attal, the return of the mask with the return of the All Saints holidays concerned "the departments where the incidence rate has unfortunately stabilized above 50 for 100,000 inhabitants ".
The government announced in September the end of wearing masks for primary school students in the departments least affected by the epidemic.
At the beginning of October, 47 departments had been able to remove it, followed by others in the following weeks.
In total, the wearing of masks at school had been lifted before All Saints' Day in 79 departments, before coming back in force with the resumption of the Covid-19 epidemic.
With AFP
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