New step for the health pass: after bars, restaurants, hospitals and transport, its use was extended on Monday to large shopping centers in the Paris region and in the south of France marked by a high incidence rate of the coronavirus.
Thus, more than a hundred shopping centers and stores are subject to the health pass on Monday according to the recommendations of the government which asked the prefects to impose it for surfaces of more than 20,000 m2 in the departments where the incidence rate exceeds 200 per 100,000 inhabitants over a week. Paris, which has a lower incidence threshold, is still introducing the health pass for five department stores (Galeries Lafayette, Printemps, BHV, Le Bon Marché and la Samaritaine) and three shopping centers in the capital.
“I am for the health pass and for wearing a mask, so that we can enjoy life and that everyone regain their former life. »Inside the Beaugrenelle shopping center, Aline Loreille, a client, has no complaints with the new restriction. Same story with Claire Bochard: “We do our shopping in excellent conditions, everything is fine. I find that quite normal, if we are not vaccinated, we choose, somewhere, not to go to shopping centers ”. To cope with this new measure, the Beaugrenelle center hired eight agents to verify the passes and set up a screening tent nearby.
Four Île-de-France departments (Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-d'Oise, Val-de-Marne, Hauts-de-Seine) exceeding the threshold have also published decrees establishing the health pass. The other departments concerned in France are the Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Charente-Maritime, Corse-du-Sud, Gard, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, Hérault, Landes, Pyrénées-Orientales, Rhône, Haute-Savoie, Var and Vaucluse.
