Virginie Riva, edited by Laura Laplaud 6:26 am, November 27, 2021, modified at 6:28 am, November 27, 2021

While contaminations have doubled in a week at school and nearly 9,000 classes closed, all eyes are now on primary schools and sixth grade classes where children are not vaccinated.

In middle school, sixth grade students will have to complete two self-tests per week on Monday.

If the government has not yet tightened the health protocol in schools, on the other hand, it is changing its method.

As soon as a case of Covid-19 appears in a primary school class, all children in this class will be required to perform a saliva test.

Two options: do it at school when laboratory staff can travel to take samples, or in town, accompanied by parents, at the pharmacy or in the laboratory.

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End of the sworn statement

"From next week, when a student tests positive, all the students in the class are tested in turn and only the classmates who test positive stay at home", announced the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer , Thursday, during a government press conference on measures to deal with the fifth wave of Covid-19. 

These tests will be free for the children and the class will close the time to take this sample.

Only sick children will have to stay at home and to return, it will be compulsory to present a negative test carried out after 10 days.

It will therefore no longer be possible to provide a simple sworn statement.

New measures for middle school students

On the other hand, the protocol is different for the college students, in particular for the sixths.

Starting Monday, boxes of ten tests, each lasting five weeks, will be distributed to sixth-grade students for self-testing.

"The sixth grade classes are a special case, because the children are under 12 years old and are not vaccinated," Jean-Michel Blanquer said on Friday from our colleagues at France Inter.

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Tests that will be carried out as a family, twice a week, and which will be under the control of the college educational team.

This new device will therefore require parents to test their children when we know: the acceptance rate of saliva tests offered at school was until then very low.