Covid: end of the mask in primary school on October 4 in the least affected departments

The obligation to wear a mask in primary school will be lifted from October 4 in the departments least affected by the Covid-19 epidemic, announced the government spokesman, but the health pass is for the moment maintained everywhere in France. "From Monday, October 4, in departments where the incidence rate stabilizes below the threshold of 50 per 100,000 inhabitants, the school protocol will move to level 1, which essentially means that the obligation to wear a mask in primary school will be lifted," said Gabriel Attal at the end of the Council of Ministers, preceded in the morning by a Health Defence Council. Second measure, "the gauges that apply in some establishments receiving the public will be lifted in these same departments," he added. This mainly concerns the cultural sector, including standing concert halls as well as discotheques, he said afterwards. Tuesday, 41 departments out of 101 were below this alert threshold, while the decline of the epidemic "is confirmed day after day" even if "caution is required", welcomed the spokesman of the government, insisting on "positive measures". "Wearing a mask, especially for the youngest children, is far from trivial," he insisted.

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