Pressure surge. Faced with the push of the Delta variant, the executive does not want to repeat the same mistakes as in the summer of 2020. After Emmanuel Macron's speech on Monday evening, solemnly calling on the French to be vaccinated, while extending the health pass, the government made the SAV presidential announcements on Tuesday morning. This was notably the case of Gabriel Attal. Invited on Europe1, the government spokesperson first asserted that those who were not vaccinated by the beginning of August, the date of the implementation of the health pass in cafes and restaurants, will have to carry out regular PCR tests to go to these places. A provision all the more significant as it will also constrain the employees working there. Clearly, as long as they are not fully vaccinated, they will have to do a PCR test every two to three days. "
We can not impose on people who have been vaccinated constraints related to an epidemic resumption that would be the fact of people who did not want to be vaccinated, "
argued the spokesperson for the government.
"The message of the President of the Republic has been heard".
Concerning the vaccination obligation of caregivers, it will be controlled by employers for employees, by the ARS or the primary health insurance fund for liberal professionals. Obviously, it is a question of encouraging as much as possible the refractory or hesitant French to be vaccinated. For Gabriel Attal,
"satisfied to see that the message of the President of the Republic has been heard"
, "
there is no vaccination obligation, there is a maximum incentive".
It must be said that the government wishes to reduce as much as possible the possibilities of social life of the unvaccinated. Hence the rush on the vaccination slots: since Monday evening, 1.3 million new appointments have been made on Doctolib.
Gabriel Attal sees in it “
French people who doubted or waited and who made an appointment. They may have doubts (...) but with the Delta variant (...) unfortunately we no longer have time to doubt, and therefore we have to go ”.
For the time being, the government is not considering compulsory vaccination for all French people. Emmanuel Macron made the choice of
"confidence",
without ruling out this hypothesis. Despite the pressure of the health pass, the executive remains cautious. As if to prepare the spirits. "
You should never rule out anything for the future,"
said Gabriel Attal. With one goal in mind: to hope that the incentive is enough to stem the epidemic rebound.
