Professionals who must apply the health pass from Monday at the entrance to their establishments will have "a break-in week".
This will allow them to "appropriate it", confirmed this Friday the spokesman of the government, Gabriel Attal.
Asked during a trip to Avignon (Vaucluse) on vaccination, Gabriel Attal recalled that, concerning a possible tolerance the first days in the application of the device, Prime Minister Jean Castex promised in July "a week of running in in the implementation of the health pass ”.
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"It is a new tool for a certain number of professionals, they must be able to appropriate it", explained the spokesperson, assuring that the government "does not ignore the impact" of the pass by terms of day-to-day organization, "especially when you are a restaurant owner and when you have a large terrace".
“This is an additional constraint, but this constraint ensures that these places can remain open,” he argued: “If we did not have this tool, we probably would have had to close a number of places. ”In view of the fourth wave that appeared in July.
"Continue this vaccine sprint"
Regarding the hospital, the government wants to "make it a sanctuary vis-à-vis the epidemic," said Gabriel Attal.
“Now, of course, when you have an emergency or when you come to accompany a sick person at the end of their life, you will not be asked for a health pass to enter the hospital.
It is common sense and it is obviously a humanism which all health professionals demonstrate on a daily basis, ”he added.
He also estimated that the goal of 50 million people who received a first dose of vaccine against Covid-19 by the end of August should be reached, calling for "to continue this vaccine sprint".
Asked about the anti-pass and anti-vaccination demonstrations, Gabriel Attal finally distinguished the people who "most sincerely doubt the world" from "a very small minority" who are "in a political instrumentalisation of the epidemic, of the past. health, sometimes for electoral and media purposes ”, which is“ irresponsible ”. The law extending the health pass to new public places, including restaurants and cafes, and establishing a vaccination obligation for caregivers was published in the Official Journal on Friday, the day after the green light given by the Constitutional Council.