Frances Opened 6,000 Schools, But Then Closed 12

France's Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer told Europe 1 radio on September 4, 2020, that 12 mainland schools had so far been closed across France, after some 60,000 schools opened and 12 million students returned to school during the past week.

Minister Blanquer added authorities were investigating around 250 incidents related to COVID-19 disease in schools each day, which are mainly linked to "factors outside school, concerning people who could have been contaminated over the summer. If a school reports more than 3 coronavirus cases, it is temporarily shut, reported France 24.

Across France, the number of COVID-19 disease-related fatalities has reached 30,706 during 2020. According to the latest reports of the Agence régionale de Santé, as of September 4th, the Ile-de-France region has reported 7,746 related-fatalities in total.