This pass will be used to access leisure activities, restaurants and drivers, trade fairs, seminars and trade shows and interregional public transport.
Le Monde with AFP.
After two weeks of heated debate at the National Assembly and the Senate between the majority and the oppositions, the vaccinal pass, succeeding the sanitary pass for persons of at least 16 years, will come into effect from Monday 24 January “Subject to the decision of the Constitutional Council”, announced, Thursday, January 20, Jean Castex at a press conference. The application of the vaccinal pass will take note of nine days later than originally planned by the government.
This passes will be used to access leisure activities, restaurants and drinks, trade fairs, seminars and trade shows and interregional public transport. Its establishment, which should allow “to raise most of the restrictions taken” according to Mr Castex, remains suspended by a decision on Friday, the Constitutional Council, seized by members and senators of the opposition.
In questioning the possibility of lifting the application of the vaccinal pass or to limit its deployment over time, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, has, for his part, clarified that the Government “Release [A] measures Constraint (…) As soon as the hospital pressure [will] be sufficiently low “. “What we want is that there is no more deprogrammed care,” said the Minister of Health, who believes that the vaccinal pass will be applied “as long as necessary”, but “not more than necessary “.
A hand stretched to the non-vaccinated
The Prime Minister also took a step towards non-vaccinated people. Jean Castex announced that the vaccinal pass would be accessible and activated for people vaccinated from their first dose of vaccine under two conditions: well do their second dose the following month and justify a negative test of less than twenty-four hours to access the main places open to the public where the pass applies.
The government will open from Monday and without obligation the VVID-19 vaccine reminder to every 12-17 years, announced the Prime Minister. “For the 12-17 year olds, the opening of the reminder has been decided for those who have chronic pathologies, like many countries around us did it, I announce that we will extend this possibility of a reminder vaccination for all but without obligation, starting on next Monday, “he said.
The Prime Minister also wishes to encourage vaccination of 12-year-olds, also feeling that “the vaccination of children aged 5 to 11 years old should be” progressing “”