Gathered during a joint joint committee on Thursday, parliamentarians validated the text as modified by the Senate, which includes the possibility of reintegration of non -vaccinated caregivers if the High Authority for Health gives its approval.
Le Monde
Deputies and senators managed to agree, Thursday, July 21, 2022, on the content of the bill extending certain measures to manage the health crisis, the judgment of which was initially planned at the end of the month.
Maintaining the SI-DEP databases (for the results of virological tests) and COVID contact, validated by deputies at first reading, had also been confirmed by senators on the night of Wednesday to Thursday. The conservation of this information by the State makes it possible in particular to facilitate travel in Europe when the country of destination requires proof of vaccination or restoration of the COVID-19.
Senators, however, voted two measures absent from the text adopted by the National Assembly: the possibility left to the government to restore virological test control at the entrance to the national territory (with a specific provision for overseas) and that of reintegrating non-vaccinated caregivers if the High Health Authority (HAS) agreed.
Meeting during a joint joint committee, in the afternoon of Thursday, the parliamentarians therefore validated these changes, written in the Senate by the elected official of the Channel and rapporteur of the text, Philippe Bas. The version of the text adopted by the body, which brings together seven deputies and seven senators of different sensitivities, must now pass once again before the Assembly, for a vote without new exam, scheduled for Monday, then in the Senate, Tuesday, for Be definitively adopted … Unless the delay on the ongoing debates on purchasing power and the amending finance bill, which must end on Saturday evening, is shaking up the legislative calendar.
Reintegration of caregivers and border test control
The government has so far been opposed to any reintegration of non -vaccinated caregivers, but the condition of the downstream of the HAS brought the Minister of Health, François Braun, to qualify before the senators the measurement of “balanced “. Mr. Braun announced that these caregivers were 2,605 in the health sector.
“We create a path to reintegration,” said the Senate Mr. Bas, for whom “the decision must be medical, it will be”. According to the rapporteur’s proposal, the caregiver’s vaccination obligation will be suspended as soon as the HAS judges that it is no longer justified, and the non-vaccinated nursing staff will then be “immediately reinstated”.
The government also praised the return of test controls, a central measure for the executive which had been rejected by the elected officials of the national rally, of the new ecological and social popular union (NUPS) and part of the Republicans in the National Assembly.
This new measurement is available in two distinct devices. The first concerns travelers from foreign countries. In the event of a new variant of Sars-Cov-2, the government could impose the presentation of a negative test for embarkation for France. Philippe Bas entitled this “Travel Certificate” system to differentiate it from the health pass – which also includes the vaccination and recovery certificate.
Activated by decree by the executive, this first device could last a month, a vote of the Parliament being necessary in the event of a wish to extend. A second device, similar to the first, could apply for travel to overseas communities “in the event of risk of saturation” of their health system. On the initiative of Philippe Bonnecarrère (centrist) and Thani Mohamed Soilihi (Gathering of Democrats, Progressive and Independent, La République En Marche) was introduced the possibility of control for people from ultramarine communities.