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Omicron variant: Macron bets on vaccination to ward off the specter of re-containment

2021-12-19T20:00:15.154Z


ANALYSIS - Until now, Emmanuel Macron has always refused to impose vaccination, preferring the strong constraint of the health pass.


The Omicron variant is approaching.

And, with him, the time of choice for Emmanuel Macron.

That of the “difficult decisions” that the President of the Republic feared having to take in the face of the incessant rebounds of the Covid-19 epidemic.

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Already on Friday, in the Health Defense Council, the Head of State confirmed the transformation of the health pass into a vaccination pass.

"

A disguised form of vaccine obligation

", recognized the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran in an interview with the media Brut.

"We assume to put the maximum of constraints on the unvaccinated, because all the studies show that they present more risks of making serious forms", one

explains in the entourage of the Head of State .

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Until now, Emmanuel Macron has always refused to impose vaccination, preferring the strong constraint of the health pass.

But then, the devastating arrival of the Omicron variant straddles the fifth wave and threatens to overwhelm the intensive care unit again.

So much so that the ...

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Source: lefigaro

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