Paris mayor calls for schools to be closed to rein in Covid-19

Published March 31, 2021

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has said that schools should be closed to rein in the spread of the Covid-19 virus, speaking ahead of possible new restrictive measures to be announced later in the day by the government.

“I think the schools should be closed”, Hidalgo told BFM TV.

Schoolchildren clean their hands at the private primary school Jeanne D'Arc in Saint-Maur-des-Fosses, near Paris, amid the Covid-19 outbreak in France, March 30. — Reuters

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