Maintain the pressure on vaccination and anticipate a probable fourth wave of the epidemic.
For the past few days, members of the executive and those in charge of the Scientific Council have taken turns to encourage the population to be vaccinated and warn about the worrying spread of the Delta variant.
"The apprehension in the face of the increase in the number of cases can have the beneficial effect of pushing the French to get vaccinated"
, decrypts a member of the government.
Videoconferencing
While waiting to perhaps extend the vaccination obligation to the entire population - which François Bayrou, boss of the MoDem, said he was in favor of this Sunday - the executive is moving ahead with the implementation for caregivers and staff nursing home.
"A certain consensus"
is emerging
"around this idea, among political parties but also among scientists and the French,"
government spokesman Gabriel Attal said Monday morning on France Inter.
"We have observed certain situations where the epidemic was resumed in nursing homes because some caregivers were not vaccinated",
pointed out the Secretary of State.
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The Prime Minister wrote to parliamentary groups on the matter on Thursday. Jean Castex also probed the political forces on the extension of the health pass and the hardening of the constraints of isolation. They must decide by Tuesday. Once these conclusions have been received, the head of government will consult the associations of elected officials. A videoconference is scheduled for Thursday between the Prime Minister, the Association of French Departments, the Association of French Regions, as well as representatives of associations of the municipal block. Proof that the government wants to move quickly on this subject, a bill is already in preparation. The text could be adopted in the Council of Ministers before the summer cutoff, by the end of July,for examination in Parliament immediately and entry into force at the start of the school year at the latest. The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, also applies himself to preparing the spirits.
“Asking a caregiver to be vaccinated is not pointing the finger at it,”
he said Sunday at the Solidays festival, a special edition reserved for caregivers.
On the vaccination of healthcare professionals, a broad consensus exists, from the Scientific Council to the Order of Physicians, among elected officials and even in public opinion.
The entourage of Jean Castex.
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"On the vaccination of caregivers, a broad consensus exists, from the Scientific Council to the Order of Physicians, among elected officials and even in public opinion"
, highlights the entourage of Jean Castex.
The final decision therefore feeds few doubts.
It could be announced, according to our information, by the head of state in person.
Emmanuel Macron must speak by July 14 on the priorities of the end of his five-year term, the lessons of the health crisis.
The President of the Republic will obviously evoke the specter of the fourth wave of the epidemic and the threat of variants, which have not finished disrupting his mandate.
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