The Minister of Health spoke on Tuesday morning before the fact-finding mission on the Senate vaccination pass.
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Will we soon say goodbye to the vaccination pass? The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, sketched for the first time, before the information mission on the Senate vaccine pass, Tuesday, February 22, the criteria which could be retained by the government for a future lifting of the document which governs today access to many places, while the peak of contamination during the fifth wave of Covid-19 has now passed.
“We would have to go down to around 1,500 Covid patients in the sheave, for us to consider that the normal functioning of hospitals is restored”explained Olivier Véran. In addition, the virus reproduction factor R must be “permanently less than one”and the incidence rate should be “quite low, around 300 or 500 at most”. This lifting of the vaccination pass would be effective in “all or part of the places where it applies”also warned the Minister of Health.
Lifting of #vaccinationpass : “We should be at 1500 patients in the sheave: at the current rate we will be there in 2 or 3 weeks. We would also need a low incidence rate (300-500 maximum). We will reach it, and there too here 2 or 3 weeks maximum, that’s good news.” @olivierveran pic.twitter.com/I0MMnyIrTK
— Public Senate (@publicsenat) February 22, 2022
According to the Minister, these conditions will be met, if the current trajectory is maintained, “in two to three maximum weeks”i.e. around mid-March. However, he stresses that the number of deaths remains relatively high today, with “290” deaths recorded on Monday, and that the Omicron variant is therefore not to be taken lightly.