Some parents wondered.
There will be "no health pass in schools," Jean Castex said on Wednesday at the end of a health defense council at the Elysee Palace.
“Our entire strategy since the start of the crisis (…) has consisted in ensuring that the children of France are educated as much as possible.
(…) So we are not going to say now, if you are not vaccinated, especially since some can not do anything about it, we will deprive you of school.
So no health pass in schools, ”said Jean Castex to the TF1 13H newspaper.
However, the government's priority remains to massively vaccinate young people, who are very contagious.
"We have planned that in September, we will put the package to vaccinate all children from 12 to 17 years who will not have been, the Prime Minister said again (...) We are going to put in place measures reaching out to them in schools.
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More and more specialists say that protecting minors would limit the circulation of the virus, at a time when the variants are spreading.
The vaccination campaign for 12-17 year olds was launched late, on June 15.
