The Head of State is holding a new health defense council on Tuesday, February 15, on the eve of a major lifting of restrictions linked to Covid-19. From Wednesday, nightclubs will reopen and it will again be possible to consume food and drink in stadiums, cinemas or public transport. It will also once again be allowed to stand in bars. Follow our live.
New rules for the vaccination pass. From Tuesday, to keep a valid vaccination pass, the booster dose of vaccines against Covid-19 must be carried out no later than four months after the end of the initial vaccination schedule, except for those who have contracted the disease since. The maximum period for recall was up to now seven months.
Simplified procedure for “repentants”. False pass holders who wish to be vaccinated can now go to a vaccination center to regularize their situation without risk of prosecution. This procedure is permitted by the law “strengthening the tools for managing the health crisis”, adopted on January 16.
Covid-19 should not prevent blood donation. “I can donate my blood as soon as I am vaccinated. I can donate my blood whether I have a health pass or whether I don’t have a health pass. I can finally donate my blood seven days after the start of the Covid if I had the Covid“, detailed François Toujas, president of the French Blood Establishment (EFS), on France 2, recalling that the Covid, respiratory virus, is not transmitted by transfusion.
WHO calls for increased vaccination effort in Eastern Europe. The European office of the World Health Organization (WHO) warns that the “tsunami” linked to the Omicron variant of Covid-19 is advancing east. In the past two weeks, cases have more than doubled in six countries in this area: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine.