This health protocol, announced on Saturday by the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, during a trip to Haute-Savoie, is intended to “guarantee” the holding of a “dignified season”.
Le Monde with AFP
The port of the mask will be mandatory in the queues of the ski lifts of the ski resorts and the sanitary pass will also become so if the national incidence rate exceeds 200 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, announced, Saturday, November 6th , Mr Castex during a trip to Haute-Savoie.
This health protocol is intended, according to the Prime Minister, to “guarantee” the holding of a “dignified season”, after a very difficult winter 2020 for the mountain sector, with the closure of the lifts because of The Covid-19 epidemic.
While the new ski season is gradually opened, the government has therefore retained the option of a reinforced protocol of the mask in the gondolas and outdoors in the queues and places of brewing. A physical distancing will also be imposed in the reassembly queues, “with random controls”. Once installed on the chairlift, we can remove the mask in the open air.
Effective early next week
This protocol must come into effect at the beginning of next week, exposed the Secretary of State to Tourism, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne.
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The Executive has decided to set the trigger threshold where the pass will become mandatory at an incidence rate of 200 cases per 100,000 population at the national level. Car “welcomes you an audience from everywhere,” said Castex to elected officials and local actors at a meeting at Grand-Bornand.
“This is a good balance, given what the vaccination rates,” said Castex, said. “It guarantees the health safety of the skiers and the fulfillment of the activity” of the stations, he added, before a speech at the 88 e Congress of the Mayors of Haute-Savoie in La Roche -Sur-foron.
In recent days, the incidence rate is ironed above 60 cases per 100,000 population in France. In addition, 76.1% of the population received at least one dose of vaccine.