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Health pass: a local adaptation of the rules on the menu of the next defense council, announces Attal

2021-09-19T11:32:35.147Z


A defense council should be held "soon [...], probably next Wednesday", on this theme, the government spokesman said on BFMTV.


Still contested on Saturday by 80,000 demonstrators in France according to official figures, will the health pass soon change?

Asked about

BFM Politics

this Sunday, the government spokesperson confirmed that a "

reflection

" was underway within the executive on this tool used against the epidemic.

A defense council should be held "

soon [...], probably next Wednesday

", on this issue.

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Specifically, the executive is wondering how "

to adapt the rules, the health pass, perhaps others, to the local situation,

" said Gabriel Attal. The authorities remain cautious: if the health situation is improving in France, "

this virus, on several occasions, has surprised the whole world

", recalled the representative, for whom "

probably, the Covid has even more than one turn in his bag

”. A balance must therefore be found to “

[keep] tools which we have seen to have proved their worth

”, while adapting them to the situation of the territories. The central objective remains to avoid at all costs a re-containment or having to close again the cafes, restaurants or cinemas,hammered the spokesperson.

Gabriel Attal, however, did not give a specific threshold from which the rules would be adapted. He simply noted that the incidence rate was now less than 50, in many departments. A defense council will be held "

soon to work on this

", he added, "

probably next Wednesday

". The outright abolition of the health pass does not seem to be the preferred route, however, as the executive may prefer "to

keep this tool in [his] pocket

" in the event of an epidemic resumption in the weeks to come.

Satisfied with the improvement in terms of health, several representatives of the executive have put forward the track of a localized adaptation of the rules. Thursday, Emmanuel Macron said he was considering lifting "

certain constraints as soon as sanitary conditions allow [...] in areas where the virus circulates less quickly

". More specifically, the health pass could also be removed "

in the places where it is put, where the virus hardly circulates any more

". On Saturday, in an interview with

Le

Parisien

, the Minister of Health was for his part cautious, believing that it was "

still too early to relax the measures

". Corn "

If the situation continued to improve, we could gradually ease the restrictions, where the virus circulates the least first, then everywhere in the territory.

This reduction could include the health pass

, ”added Olivier Véran.

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While 50 million French people have now received at least a first injection of the Covid-19 vaccine, the executive could therefore ease the pressure a little, in certain territories.

Expanded in early August, the health pass now seems globally accepted: on Saturday, 80,000 people demonstrated against this tool throughout France, according to the Ministry of the Interior, far from the peak of 237,000 participants recorded on August 7.

Source: lefigaro

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