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Covid-19: vaccination soon mandatory to travel to New Caledonia

2021-08-16T07:23:22.497Z


New Caledonia, a rare territory free of Covid-19, will make vaccination compulsory to enter its territory, for fear of the variant ...


New Caledonia, a rare territory free of Covid-19, will make vaccination compulsory to enter its territory, for fear of the Delta variant and after the weakening of its sanitary airlock, the local government announced on Monday.

Read also: Covid-19: in New Caledonia, the government urges the population to be vaccinated

A draft deliberation "

imposing compulsory vaccination for anyone entering the territory

" will be adopted on Wednesday, said the collegiate government, also announcing "

a strengthening of entry criteria, which will become much more rigorous

".

The current health protocol weakened

This turn of the screw comes at a time when the health protocol currently in force, which imposes 7 days of isolation in a hotel for passengers vaccinated with messenger RNA and 14 days for the unvaccinated, has just been weakened by court decisions.

Several people were able to leave isolation prematurely, without PCR testing or serology carried out in Noumea.

Read also: Covid-19: end of confinement in New Caledonia

Other appeals being on the way, the pro-independence president of the government, Louis Mapou, this weekend suspended a flight from Tokyo, operated by the local company Air Calédonie International. The passengers, “

in the great majority of the soldiers

”, did not in fact embark in Paris for the first section of the trip to Japan, provided by Air France.

"

Determined not to put the Caledonian population at risk

", the executive recalled that "

the only solution remains vaccination

".

While less than 30% of the eligible population is vaccinated, the authorities fear in the event of the introduction of the virus, a catastrophic scenario similar to that which strikes Polynesia or the West Indies.

Last week, the minimum air service to the archipelago, along with a sanitary lock, was extended until December 31.

Passing of arms against the backdrop of a referendum

While a third referendum on independence will take place on December 12, border protection has sparked a pass of arms between the FLNKS and the “

Loyalists

coalition

.

Criticizing "

the State and a contemptuous justice

", the separatists evoked the solution "

of canceling all the flights of Metropolis

" while their adversaries recalled that "

without France

", there would be neither vaccine, nor airlock. health, "

funded by a grant

".

For its part, the Medef deplored this “

politicization

” of the Covid-19 and called for a collective preparation plan to “

live with the virus which will enter at one time or another

”.

Source: lefigaro

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