The Minister for Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari indicated on Friday that the health protocol in trains would be "perpetuated at least all summer", excluding for the moment the extension of the health pass to trains.
"We have a device that works well and which is intended to be perpetuated at least all summer," Djebbari told the press during a visit to the Gare de Lyon (Paris).
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The wearing of the mask is "very well respected for more than a year" in the trains, he judged, stressing that the trains were subjected to a cleaning and a disinfection "systematic".
“In addition, there have been a lot of efforts that have been made on the early display of platforms in stations to save a little time, to avoid congestion and the effect of queues,” he said. -he adds.
"No progagation" of the virus in TGVs
"For the moment we did not wish to extend the sanitary pass, in particular to TGV," he also said during an interview on site with BFMTV.
Asked about the risks of contamination on board trains, the minister cited studies "which all converge on the fact that when the mask is worn properly, public transport and TGV in particular are not places of propagation, in particular when we compare them to other places ”.
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"There is an air conditioning system which renews the air every nine minutes at most in TGVs," he added. SNCF Voyageurs CEO Christophe Fanichet said he was optimistic for the summer - even if attendance will not, according to him, reach the levels before the health crisis - in an interview published Wednesday by AFP. Mr. Fanichet predicts "10% more travelers compared to last summer" (outside the Paris region), from 20 to 22 million travelers in July and August. Nearly a million travelers are expected in stations for the first weekend of July, according to SNCF.