In Nîmes (Gard), the students of the police school are subjected to a massive screening for Covid-19, while a suspicion of a case of the Delta variant has been identified in its ranks. Tuesday, the prefecture indicated a “possible contamination of a student (…) by the Delta variant” and “five other students screened positive”. It is not known whether these other five cases also relate to a suspicion of a Delta variant. The Regional Health Agency (ARS) has so far not responded to our requests.
Tuesday, at the end of the day, of the 1,400 students and staff, 569 people had been tested and no other case was found to be positive. Screenings are continuing.
A “festive stay”
In addition, “in order to contain this risky situation as well as possible and as soon as possible”, infected pupils and contact cases have been isolated, and “vaccination operations for pupils and staff not yet vaccinated will be offered to all. voluntary people screened negative ”, indicates the prefecture.
The contamination would have taken place “during a festive stay”, note the state services. “ARS Occitanie calls on the population to be extremely vigilant during this type of event, by continuing to respect barrier gestures. “