During this new school year in zone A, the first saliva tests are set up in schools in Côte-d’Or. This Friday, the students and staff of Les berges de la Saône school in Pontailler sur Saône and from the Eugène Guillaume vocational school in Montbard will be tested. These two establishments will be part of a panel, with the college Le Chapitre à Chenôve and in these three establishments, the tests will be carried out every two weeks explains the rector of the Dijon academy Nathalie Albert-Moretti.
“We are working hand in hand with the ARS since the virus has played with us from the start and is constantly evolving. Three establishments in Côte-d’Or will be tested every fortnight, explains Nathalie Albert-Moretti. These establishments will serve as markers and will allow us to see how the virus behaves. ”
Volunteering and confidentiality
These saliva tests are quite well accepted by parents, says the rector. “Even if for the little ones in kindergarten, spitting in a tube is not necessarily obviously, in any case unlike the swab it is not painful, and it reassures parents.”
These tests are carried out on the basis of volunteering, with parental consent necessary for children. They are offered to students and to all school staff. The results are then sent directly to the families, and it is up to them to notify the facility if they test positive. “The heads of establishments do not receive the results, it remains confidential” assure Nathalie Albert-Moretti.
This week no class is closed in Côte-d’Or, even if that does not mean much since the parents who kept the sick children at home after two weeks of vacation did not necessarily give details about the disease in question. Classes close in kindergarten from a single positive case and from three cases in the other levels (except in the case of a variant, in these cases, a single case is enough to close a class).
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