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Crowd of questions

Two weeks before the start of containment, there are many questions: o make masks mandatory? Which tests and for whom? Reopening of shops everywhere or by regions? What about companies? What about the summer holidays?

The Scientific Council charged with enlightening the government delivered on Saturday evening its recommendations for a “gradual lifting and containment control”. Notable divergence with government choices, he advocates that day nurseries and schools remain closed until September but took “note of the political decision” to reopen them gradually in May, by “taking into account health, but also social and economic issues”.

For the start of the school year, which must be gradual, the council recommends in particular the compulsory wearing of an anti-splash mask in colleges and high schools, for staff as well as for pupils.

Experts also suggest lunch in the classroom, warming up at home each morning before school, and strategies in schools to avoid brewing students. But they undermine the feasibility and interest of mass screening.

“With this note from the Scientific Council, we have the basis for the development of the announced health protocol to provide a safe framework for academic confinement”, judged Jean-Michel Blanquer, Minister of National Education.

“Mission impossible”, replied Philippe Vincent, secretary general of SNPDEN, the first union of school heads. “The sum of all the recommendations of the Council, if they were retained, is unworkable in the current state of our capacities, with personnel who will certainly not be present 100%”, he fears.

Beyond school matters, the Scientific Council recommends authorizing trips between regions by public transport if precautionary measures are taken. respect. However, he “strongly” advises against international travel for a few more months.

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