Health pass for teens on September 30: it will finally be from 12 years and 2 months

Like the snake that bites its tail, children finishing their 11th grade feared being penalized by the entry into force of the health pass for 12-17 year olds on September 30.

From this date, having been vaccinated or having a negative test will be essential for them to go to the cinema, to the restaurant, to take the train, and even to participate in extracurricular activities.

Problem: under 12s cannot get vaccinated yet. Thus, the boys and the lines who will blow out their 12th candle a little before or after September 30 will immediately have the health pass imposed on that date, even though they have not yet had the opportunity to complete their vaccination cycle. . Nearly 200,000 adolescents were potentially affected.

To remedy this headache, the health pass will only apply from the age of 12 and 2 months, according to our information.

"The decree will be drafted in this direction", indicates Matignon to the Parisian.

This period will give adolescents two months to be vaccinated.

The minimum difference between the two doses being three weeks, and also counting the additional week necessary after the second injection for the health pass to be valid, this even leaves a little margin.

“Vigilant” parents

Several parents had clearly identified this problem.

Julien's daughter, for example, will be 12 on October 9.

"We have already reserved a time slot for his first dose that day, then for the second three weeks later," says the young father.

But it will take another 7 days for her to activate the health pass with her vaccination certificate.

Julien "did not imagine his daughter doing tests" regularly and he welcomes a "measure of common sense", even if he would have appreciated that a period "a little longer" than two months is guaranteed.

Remember that a parent's consent is required for a teenager to be vaccinated (unless he is over 16, in which case he can decide on his own).

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The same subject of "vigilance" for Luc, an engineer living in Issy-les-Moulineaux. Her son will turn 12 on September 15, but the problem remained the same: the time to have the two injections, then with the extra week, it goes back to mid-October. "It will be good for the All Saints holidays, so all the better, but I did not have information for extracurricular activities during the first half of October", worried Tuesday this engineer, who hoped for a "tolerance From the authorities. So there he is reassured.