A screening operation for young people from the Paca region is organized throughout the month of January – Mathilde Ceilles / 18 Minutes
- AT From this Monday, the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region is launching a coronavirus screening campaign in high schools and universities in the region.
- A means of having a photograph of the epidemic situation of the region at the end of hand of the end of the year celebrations, in a tense and worrying context.
Alexander coughs and wipes his eyes. “Whoa, it itches, it’s horrible!” »The young Marseillais , second year student at Ampère high school, has just undergone the first antigen test of his life, in a room of this establishment in the tenth arrondissement transformed into a screening center for coronavirus . Since this Monday, and throughout the month of January, the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, the Regional Health Agency (ARS) and the rectorate are indeed organizing in high schools and universities in the region a campaign to screen students and students, the day after the end of the year holidays.
A device “unique in France”, according to the president of the Paca region, Renaud Muselier, set up the day after an announcement by the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer who promised to “deploy even more strongly the tests ”in schools.
“Protect the grandparents”
“Everyone is anxiously awaiting the effects of the end of year celebrations, especially among high school students who are guess they didn’t all make a 25 confined, recognizes Caroline Chevé, deputy academic secretary of Snes-Fsu Aix-Marseille. After that, it’s still a way of communicating for the region, which leaves us a little wary. But since the National Education is failing in this matter, for lack of thrush, we eat blackbirds… ”
“Me, I get tested to protect my grandparents, whom I see every other weekend,” says Alexandre, who says “he hardly saw no one these holidays, except two or three colleagues, and no New Year’s Eve party ”. “Me, my parents are at risk and asked me to do it,” explains his comrade Julien. After that, I didn’t do much during my vacation, I’m more of the type to stay and play video games in my room! “
” We are going to achieve close to 25 . tests at volunteer high schools across the region, ”promises Renaud Muselier. But for the time being, in the Ampère high school which acts as a test high school, there is no crowd in the screening center: despite an information campaign for parents during the school holidays, only about fifty students on the 700 of the establishment has decided to volunteer to be tested on this return Monday. All negative.