Government spokesman Gabriel Attal specified the timetable desired by the executive for the implementation of this new measure.
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Objective at the end of January 2022. The government hopes for the adoption of the vaccination pass, which should replace the health pass, by the end of January for entry into force. “in the wake”, said Sunday, December 19 his spokesperson Gabriel Attal. The executive wants the bill to transform the health pass into a vaccination pass, “a quasi-confinement” for the unvaccinated, either “definitively adopted and promulgated before the end of January so that it can enter into force immediately”, Attal told LCI.
Faced with the fifth wave of Covid-19 and the arrival of the Omicron variant in France, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced several new measures on Friday, including the transformation of the health pass into a vaccine pass. Concretely, to enter places subject to this pass (restaurants, places of culture, recreation, etc.), a negative test will no longer suffice: it will necessarily be necessary to have been vaccinated (or cured of the Covid) and to have received a dose of reminder.
“This week-end”, either from this announcement, “we have seen an increase in appointments made for a first injection”, welcomed Attal, citing the figure of 16,000 appointments of primary vaccination taken Saturday. There are still around 5 million unvaccinated French people, he said. “It is them that we must go and convince once again, by taking measures, as we do with the vaccination pass but also by using pedagogy”, he added.