Health pass: demining operation for Jean Castex

Pedagogy and conviction.

Nine days after the speech of the President of the Republic, and while the first phase of the health pass has entered into force, the Prime Minister specified the modalities Wednesday on the set of the 1 p.m. television news on TF1.

At the end of a new Health Defense Council, Jean Castex first confirmed that France had entered the fourth wave of the epidemic because of the new strain of the Delta variant which had become the majority.

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Jean Castex: the health pass "will not be compulsory" in schools at the start of the school year

"We must react",

urged the head of government, recalling that vaccination was

"the key"

given the

"contagiousness"

of the variant. The proof, he said: of the 18,000 cases recorded on Tuesday, 96% of these infected people were not vaccinated.

"We must collectively give ourselves the means to control this epidemic outbreak,"

insisted Jean Castex, defending the two axes of the executive's strategy:

"Deploy the health pass and strengthen vaccination."

Otherwise the old "Mr. Deconfinement ”leaves the threat of having to resort to the strong method,

“ braking measures ”

. As in Haute-Corse, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, in Charente-Maritime and now in part of the Hérault, the Prime Minister indicated that in the event of a deterioration in the incidence rate and strong pressure on hospitals,

“localized or national”

measures

such as wearing masks outdoors or closing establishments open to the public could be taken.

"But as long as there are no signals of saturation of hospitals, we do not want to take measures that impact the daily life of all French people and therefore those who are vaccinated, even less in the summer period,"

said a member of the executive.

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While the implementation of the health pass is causing tensions, the former mayor of Prades has championed common sense and wanted to highlight the goodwill and pragmatism of the government, even if it means simplifying its application.

Thus, the health pass will concern 12-17 year olds from September 30 and no longer at the end of August, in order to leave time for families to organize themselves.

It will not be required to go to school, college, high school or universities, although young people are strongly encouraged to be vaccinated with vaccination centers deployed in schools from the start of the school year.

Jean Castex wanted to reassure restaurateurs and cafetiers, forced to check the health pass of their customers.

Identity control, on the other hand, remains reserved for the police, who may intervene randomly in a second step.

"The health pass is the way to leave open as much as possible places which, without a health pass, and while the epidemic is soaring, could have been closed,

" defended the Prime Minister

.

I say to restaurateurs and cafetiers: “Help us to succeed in this phase” ”.

The

"flexibility phase"

promised by the executive before the implementation of sanctions will last a week,

"the time of education".

Health Defense Council

“The sanitary pass is a heavy measure.

For it to work, for it to be accepted, it must be applicable, ”

commented a minister.

The tenant of Matignon once again addressed the

"undecided"

, young people and 3 million people over 50 with co-morbidities who have not yet moved to boost the vaccination campaign.

Objective: 50 million vaccinated by the end of August, with 5 million appointments open in the next fortnight.

A relaxation is introduced for vaccinated people.

They will no longer be subjected to isolation if they are in contact.

We will be intractable with those who, in the name of their ideas, come to acts of violence

Jean Castex

A few hours earlier, in the closed session of the Health Defense Council, Emmanuel Macron had asked that everything be done so that the available doses are immediately injected.

"We are targeting 8 million first-time injections between the end of July and the beginning of August," the government is

told.

Until now, there was a high demand but not enough appointments available. ”

Finally, while the executive is closely monitoring the movement of anti-vaccine, the head of government has toughened the tone vis-à-vis those who stand on an

"ideological posture". "We will be intractable with those who, in the name of their ideas, come to acts of violence, compare to the yellow star of the Shoah, attack the offices of parliamentarians or set fire to vaccination centers »,

He affirmed.