People who had only one dose of vaccine and a single infection must receive a 2nd dose under four months after the previous exposure to the virus to keep their pass.
Le Monde with AFP
New change of conditions for obtaining the vaccine pass. The Minister of Health announced Wednesday 2 February that the so-called reminder dose would no longer be necessary after two vaccine injections and coronavirus infection.
“The scientists tell us that to benefit from the pass, we have to have been exposed at least three times, that our immune system has been targeted at least three times,” he said. “This stimulation can be an injection or infection” and, “to a minimum, you have to have received a dose of vaccine”.
So, “you will retain the benefit of the vaccinal pass” if “you had an injection and two infections, or two injections and an infection (which the latter took place before the injections, between the two injections or after), or three injections, “said Véran.
But people who have had only one dose of vaccine and a single infection absolutely need to receive a 2 e dose under four months after the previous exposure to the virus, detailed the minister.
7 million passes potentially disabled at February 15
In theory, they could also seek to be infected (and thus have a total of three exposures to the virus), but this includes a health risk for the person.
Olivier Véran recalled that 7 million people, currently, could lose their vaccinal pass on February 15, if they did not make a booster dose. And even taking into account people contaminated by Omicron, it would still be 4.7 million people, he insisted.
According to Mr. Véran, “at least one in two French people” had the COVID since the beginning of the epidemic, which began almost two years ago. Concerning the contamination by the Omicron, less dangerous variant than the previous, but infinitely more contagious variant, the minister has mentioned a figure of 15 million people affected.