To prepare for the deconfinement scheduled for May 11, the members of the government have given the Prime Minister the avenues envisaged.
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- Travel ban between regions could be extended until mid-June
- Schools would reopen with no more than 15 students per class
- Teleworking for those who can would remain a priority
On the occasion of the Council of Ministers of this Wednesday, April 22, each minister gave Matignon his deconfinement plans. By the end of the month a global project will be delivered, taking into account everyone’s interests, including priority issues such as education, transport and work. Each of these tracks takes into account the health requirements necessary to avoid a second wave of contamination.
Interregional transport prohibited
Regarding transport, deconfinement will not rhyme with freedom. The preferred option is to prohibit inter-regional travel. “We don’t want 300,000 people on the beaches”, reported a government source to France Télévisions. This measure could last until mid-June and a first assessment. “We can ease the deconfinement in the departments where the virus circulates little or not, but on the condition that the people living in the areas where the virus is present do not come to import the virus. We must avoid that there is a mixing of the population, therefore a mixing of the virus”adds a minister.
The return to work also poses the problem of public transport. “It’s a huge jobadmits a government source to Franceinfo. You go from confinement which is an almost general rule for everyone to deconfinement which is rather a multitude of particular cases.” The government’s first measure aims to make wearing a mask compulsory. The distribution of hydroalcoholic gel, the strengthening of cleaning or an increase in the frequency of trains are included in the government’s plans. Temporary cycle paths could see the light of day, following the metro lines, in a logic of decongestion of transport.
Nothing for schools
For schools, the reopening plan wanted by the Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, is intended to be progressive. The latter expressed a desire to reopen with no more than 15 students per class. Recovery details by level did not filter. This recovery is among the most complicated since it directly involves the Ministry of Health for the protection of early childhood staff, the associations of elected officials in charge of these structures and the Ministry of Labor for the resumption of activity of parents. , which will determine the number of children to be kept. “It is too early at this stage to validate one hypothesis more than another”concedes the government.
As far as work is concerned, teleworking will remain a priority as long as possible. The implementation of staggered schedules is also on the menu of the tracks envisaged. Certain trades will be solicited by the deconfinement, such as the treatment of waste or even in nuclear power plants, the schedule of maintenance work, which requires a lot of personnel, and which will have to be readjusted by planning postponements to the summer. For each profession, the Ministry of Labor has posted a practical guide online to provide advice on how to best manage the gradual return to working life.
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