After long debates, the parliament in France approved a tightening of the corona rules.
Previously, thousands took to the streets on the weekend.
Paris - Numerous people took to the streets in France at the weekend, but in the end they could not prevent it: the French parliament passed the law on the creation of a corona * vaccination for health care workers and the expansion of the so-called health passport on late Sunday evening.
The text was approved by the National Assembly with 156 votes in favor, 60 against and 14 abstentions.
The Senate had already approved the law before the National Assembly.
The final version of the legal text had been struggled for days.
After a series of changes to the original bill, MPs and senators finally agreed on a compromise text on Sunday afternoon after a four-hour session.
Prime Minister Jean Castex and Health Minister Olivier Véran welcomed the new regulations on Twitter.
France's fight against Delta: Parliament approves mandatory vaccination for healthcare workers
President Emmanuel Macron announced the tightened measures in mid-July *.
The government wants to curb the massive increase in corona infections caused by the highly contagious Delta variant *.
France is currently fighting a fourth wave of corona.
Of the approximately 67 million inhabitants, around 40 million have at least one vaccination.
The law that has now been passed provides for mandatory vaccination for health and care workers as well as firefighters and other rescue workers.
Contrary to what the government suggested, vaccination refusals in these professions are not threatened with dismissal, but only with a suspension of their salary.
And there is another innovation: With the expansion of the health passport, which provides information about a vaccination or a negative test, a corona test obligation for non-immunized people in French restaurants and long-distance trains is to take effect for the first time from August.
In cinemas, theaters or museums, a vaccination, a survived infection or a negative corona test must be proven since Wednesday.
Protests in France because of stricter corona rules: Macron called "tyrants"
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Demonstrators on Saturday on the "Droits de l'homme" esplanade in Trocadero Square during a protest against the compulsory vaccination for certain types of work and the mandatory vaccination certificate required by the government.
© Rafael Yaghobzadeh / dpa
More than 160,000 people protested against the stricter rules on Saturday.
In Paris, the demonstrators chanted, among other things, “freedom, freedom” and called for the overthrow of President Emmanuel Macron, whom they described as a “tyrant”.
Riots broke out on the fringes of the demonstrations and there were several arrests.
However, the demonstrators do not represent the majority of the population: In a survey by the Elabe Institute for the broadcaster BFMTV on July 13, 76 percent of the French spoke out in favor of compulsory vaccination for health workers.
The expansion of the health passport also met with approval by the majority.
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List of rubric lists: © Rafael Yaghobzadeh / dpa
