NSTworld French officials have closed about 120 schools Covid19
Both primary and secondary schools have been shut in the Oise department north of Paris, where the main cluster of French cases has emerged, and where two people who have died of the virus lived.The Oise closures are affecting about 35,000 pupils, Blanquer told LCI television, while an additional 9,000 have been told to stay home in the Morbihan department of Brittany on the Atlantic coast.
"These figures are evolving quickly," Blanquer said, adding:"There could be similar measures taken in the coming days" at other schools. "It wouldn't make sense to confine everyone, to paralyse the country, it would be counter-productive," he said.
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