Macron: 'Obligation of vaccines for healthcare workers'

"At the moment I speak to you", there is a "strong recovery" of the epidemic linked to the coronavirus that affects "all our regions": said the French president, Emmanuel Macron, in the message addressed to the nation to block the advanced version of the Delta variant. "If we do not act from today, the number of cases will continue to increase strongly and will give rise to increasing hospitalizations since August", warned Macron, announcing - as expected - the obligation of vaccination, "by September 15"; of health personnel. So the appeal to all French to get vaccinated, voluntarily, to win the fight against the invisible enemy.

The French president addresses his compatriots in a televised message, after the health defense council held at the Elysée. In France, fears and warning signs are multiplying for the rapid advance of the Delta variant of the coronavirus, which now accounts for about 50% of infections. Macron talks about the health situation and its evolution, in light of the epidemic data in other countries and the importance of vaccination ", sources close to him report. For his part, the president of the French Hospital Federation (FHF), Frédéric Valletoux says he is in favor of mandatory vaccination for all professionals in contact with a vulnerable public, not just health personnel ", as has already happened in the United Kingdom, Russia or the United States.In addition to vaccinations, Macron could announce the tightening of some measures regarding access to public events or places potentially conducive to contagion, through a possible extension of the health pass that allows you to verify a person's health status. This presidential intervention comes at a crucial moment, when the French are beginning to take full advantage of the reopenings with very positive effects on the economy.in which the French are beginning to take full advantage of the reopening with very positive effects on the economy.in which the French are beginning to take full advantage of the reopening with very positive effects on the economy.