Brigitte Bourguignon calls for the “citizen duty” of the population to “protect yourself in the face of a very transmitted variant”. This is, however, not an obligation.
Le Monde with AFP
The government multiplies the recommendations, without going so far as to pronounce an obligation. The Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon, asked the French on Monday, June 27, “to put the mask in transport” by civility.
“I don’t just recommend it, I ask,” she insisted, due to an “obvious takeover” of contaminations in France. questioned on RTL , the Minister spoke of” civic duty “, consisting of” Protect yourself, faced with a very transmitted variant “, but also to” protect others and especially the most fragile “in confined places.
The Minister has thus mentioned more broadly all “the closed places where we are in very direct promiscuity”, including in his workplace or in shops.
Call for the population eligible for the Fourth dose of vaccine
France, like European countries, is faced with a revival of contaminations in particular due to the variant BA.5. Last Thursday, M
Me Bourguignon had already called for “citizen responsibility” in the face of this new epidemic deal.
All indicators are on the rise in France. The incidence rate (the number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants) increased by 29 % from June 14 to 21 compared to the previous week. The positivity rate reached 24.1 %. Over the past seven days, the number of hospitalized patients stands at 4,053, up 25.4 %.
Monday, she also reiterated her call to a new vaccination reminder for certain population categories concerned by the fourth dose. “I make a call so that people who did not use it very quickly,” she insisted, quoting those over 60 and immunocompromised people.
Professor Alain Fischer, President of the Guidance Council of the Vaccination Strategy, called on Sunday these people to be administered their second vaccination recall.
Brigitte Bourguignon added that the decision to expand eligibility to a fourth dose to the whole population “will come [it] probably”.
defeated in the ballot boxes during the legislative elections, where she had presented herself in the 6ᵉ district of Pas-de-Calais, Brigitte Bourguignon still holds the post of Minister of Health but must theoretically leave the government during the next reshuffle . Emmanuel Macron had announced that non-victorious ministers-candidates for deputation would be forced to leave government.