No truce for confectioners in the National Assembly. The deputies began on Wednesday in the law committee the examination of the text aimed at transforming the health pass into a vaccination pass. The twelfth relating to the management of the Covid-19 epidemic, noted the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, informing the national representation that 208,000 French people had been diagnosed positive in the last 24 hours. An absolute record since the arrival of the virus in France, almost two years ago. The emergence of the Omicron variant is causing a
"tidal wave"
, he said, as the Delta variant continues to be active in the territory. These two
"enemies"
shake up the start of the year for the executive, who is worried about seeing 10% of the population contaminated or if they are in contact simultaneously on the eve of New Year's Eve.
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With the new turn of the screw on the place of the unvaccinated, the government hopes to limit the constraints, even if the nightclubs are already forced to close their doors - at least until the end of January -, that Reunion Island will experience a curfew from January 1, as teleworking will once again become the norm for millions of employees.
The promise of a return to normal life is eroding and
"more and more French people are wondering what the community must agree to for the benefit of those who refuse the vaccine"
, slipped the Minister of Health .
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Although doubts thrive on the vaccine's ability to block the outbreak of contaminations, Olivier Véran has certified that 70% of intensive care patients were not vaccinated.
For the reluctant, the Minister of Health warns:
"There is really little chance that you can pass between the drops this time."
“We will continue to tighten the stitches.
(…) You have to get vaccinated, otherwise you won't get out of it, ”
he insisted, two days after the meeting of a Health Defense Council.
Hundreds of amendments.
A strategy sharply criticized by Mathilde Panot, the president of the rebellious France group. She accused the executive of putting two categories of French people back to back.
"No war without an enemy, and the enemy is all found: 'Down with the unvaccinated", "
regretted this close friend of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, hostile to the vaccine pass. The LFI group led the opposition to the text and tabled around a hundred amendments. In his view, the difficulty for hospitals to cope with this new wave is attributable to the resources allocated by the government, considered insufficient.
"We will not give in to your blackmail which consists in opposing in all circumstances the protection of health and the safeguard of freedoms,"
said Mathilde Panot.
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The vaccination pass,
"which aims to advance vaccination coverage,"
according to MP Ian Boucart, has received the approval of the LR group.
While calling for
"safeguards"
, via a review clause and application limited in time.
The right would like it to apply only to adults, while the text provides that it concerns all French people from 12 years old.
She is also worried - like the PS - about the possibility, for the employees of the establishments concerned, to control the identity of the holders of the pass.
"Many French people, vaccinated, are wondering about the accumulation of measures taken by the government and the constraints that are added to each other,"
warned Ian Boucart, who refuses that the vote of the right in favor of the vaccination pass be analyzed as a satisfaction addressed to the government.
The text will be submitted to the votes of the deputies on Monday.
