During the examination in committee of the bill transforming the health pass, Wednesday, the opposition deputies failed to exempt adolescents from the vaccination pass.
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The deputies voted for it in the law committee, Wednesday, December 29: a negative test for Covid-19 may be sufficient for young people from 12 to 17 years old for school trips to places subordinate to the next vaccination pass. An amendment in this direction carried by Caroline Abadie (LREM) was voted by the commission which examines the government project “reinforcing the tools of management of the health crisis”.
Deputies LR, LFI, PS but also the elected LREM Pacôme Rupin sought in vain to exempt minors from 12 to 17 years old from a vaccination pass, stressing in particular that it was not up to them under 16 to decide whether or not to be vaccinated and that they were less prone to severe forms of the disease.
With the favorable opinion of the rapporteur of the text, Jean-Pierre Pont (LREM), the majority preferred to vote this amendment by Caroline Abadie providing for a negative test, proof of vaccination status or a certificate of recovery for school trips. It is “skin of sorrow”, “it doesn’t help much”, deplored the deputy Danièle Obono (LFI). “Anything that can be snatched for the kids, you have to snatch it”, on the contrary judged the communist Sébastien Jumel.