Vaccinated or tested negative to return to the cinema or the museum?
"The minister in charge of digital is preparing (a kind of) health pass" but "it will certainly not be from the start of the reopening procedure" of cultural places, said Friday morning on RMC and BFMTV the Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot.
Roselyne Bachelot (R_Bachelot): "Condition the entry into a place of culture to a health passport, I admit that I have a lot of trouble" pic.twitter.com/1GcMEJFy7u
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"It is a tool, it is first of all to prepare it technically, and to see its acceptability by the population because that poses ethical problems", she explained.
And to launch: "condition the entry into a place of culture to a health passport, I admit that I have a lot of trouble".
But "if that was the condition for making places of culture work, I believe that I would compromise with my principles", she added.
No details for reopening
The minister, herself suffering from Covid19 a few weeks ago and who admitted that "the after-effects are obviously important, I am getting over them", confirmed at the same time that a reopening of places of culture was possible "if the epidemic situation allows it in mid-May ”, without giving further details.
To the question "museums, theaters, cinemas at the same time?
", The Minister was content to answer:" We will assess the situation in the finest and most appropriate way ".
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[…] I want places of culture to reopen as quickly as possible ”and“ massively ”, continued Roselyne Bachelot.
"But I am quite responsible" in the face of the health situation, she stressed, recalling that there is "not only culture at stake".
The reopening of places of cultivation "will be done gradually with strict compliance with precautionary measures" and according to "progressive gauges which will be adapted according to the health situation", she limited herself to specifying.