France shuts 120 schools in areas hit be coronavirus infections

In France, about 120 schools have been closed in areas that have reported the largest numbers of coronavirus infections, and more could be shuttered in the coming days.

Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer said yesterday that 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. Officials have reported 191 coronavirus cases in France so far, and three deaths.

Blanquer told LCI television that the Oise closures are affecting about 35,000 pupils while an additional 9,000 have been told to stay home in the Morbihan department of Brittany on the Atlantic coast.