Traveling this Friday on his land, the president took advantage of a visit to a health center in Aulnoye-Aymeries (North) to address the health situation in France, while a fifth epidemic wave begins to sweep over the country.
"We will have to open the booster dose to people for whom it is effective", he said, before announcing to wait "in the next few hours" for the opinion of the High Authority of Health about the opening. of the booster dose for people between 40 and 50 years of age.
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In an interview with La Voix du Nord, the President of the Republic ruled out on Thursday the establishment of restrictions against unvaccinated people as in Austria and Germany.
“The countries that contain the unvaccinated are those that have not implemented the pass.
This measure is therefore not necessary in France ”, he declared.
“On the third dose, I am awaiting the opinion of the health authorities.
For the immunocompromised and the elderly, we know that the risk-benefit is positive.
If it turns out that a third dose is effective and necessary for other audiences, obviously, we will integrate it into the logic of the past, ”he also indicated.
Emmanuel Macron is traveling between this Friday and next Monday in the North and the Aisne, strongholds of his rival Xavier Bertrand, president of the Hauts-de-France region.
In the morning, around a hundred Vallourec employees, worried about the future of the industrial group's French sites, gathered in peace in the center of Aulnoye-Aymeries (North), where the head of the 'Status is expected in the early afternoon.