On Thursday, 12 million French children returned to school wearing masks, using disinfectants when they arrived, and keeping their distance from each other on campus in accordance with strict regulations designed to curb the spread of Covid-19.
President Emmanuel Macron visited a school in the southern port city of Marseille. He urged students to abide by the regulations and said in a Twitter video that the government is “taking the necessary measures to normalize the’back to school’ as much as possible.” .
But this still means that the deputy principal of Rodin High School in central Paris, Mathieu Seguin, and others have undergone major changes.
“This is very different from usual,” he said, detailing the safety measures, including air purifiers in the classroom and spare masks for students who forgot to wear them.
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Now children over the age of 12 can be vaccinated, and students are encouraged to get vaccinated. Seguin said his school may become a vaccination center.
Macron said on Twitter that three of the five teenagers had received the injections. Louis, an 11-year-old Rodin student, admitted that she was a little nervous on her first day at university, and she said she couldn’t wait to get her.
“I really want to get vaccinated,” she said.
A health ministry official said on Tuesday that France’s average daily Covid-19 infection rate has slowed and is fighting the fourth wave of pandemic. The government’s goal is to vaccinate about 18 million people with a third dose of the vaccine by early 2022.
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