This health defense council will be held on Monday as the explosion of Covid-19 contamination explodes in France. The same day, the executive will present to the ministerial council the draft law on the vaccination pass.
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Emmanuel Macron will hold a Health Defense Council on Monday, December 27, as the number of Covid-19 cases explodes and that the spread of the Omicron variant worried. On the same day, the bill which plans to replace the health pass by a vaccination pass will be presented to the Council of Ministers.
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According to our information, the executive is considering a vaccination pass which may be combined with the obligation of a screening test in certain places or certain situations.
The government in particular envisages that a screening test is necessary in certain places or in certain situations of great promiscuity, the bill also retains the hypothesis of a test in addition to the three vaccine doses. The government remains very cautious for the moment. It is only a possibility enshrined in the bill, assures the executive. Parliamentarians will have to debate it, even if this possibility opened up by the law will be specified by decree.
Among the other measures in the bill presented on Monday, there are in particular the strengthened sanctions in the event of fraud. Managers of establishments open to the public will also be able to check identities in case of doubt. The president of the Law Commission, Yaël Braun-Pivet, specifies that it will be less about an identity check than a consistency check, it’s a bit like a cashier asking for the card. identity when paying by check.
Before any new braking measure, the government is still awaiting information on the Omicron variant from the Institut Pasteur and precise feedback from neighboring countries, such as Great Britain. The government does not intend to “display, if it’s limited to symptoms like a cold”.