After the fourth weekend of protests, the expansion of the French “Health Pass” includes activities such as going to restaurants and cafes, taking long-distance trains and going to hospitals.
This Health PassThe government hopes that this will increase the vaccination rate, displayed in the form of digital or paper QR codes, and made available to those who have been fully vaccinated, tested negative for Covid-19, or contracted the coronavirus and recovered.
Since July 21, anyone must visit a cinema, theater or museum, and the extension was approved by the French Constitutional Council on Thursday. The government announced that there will be a one-week grace period for customers and companies to enforce the new regulations, and then fines those who fail to comply.
Suggested official figures More than 237,000 people demonstrated Over the weekend, various parts of France opposed the introduction of the pass, arguing that it violated their civil liberties. This is an increase from the number of protests in the previous week, when 200,000 people took to the streets.Opponents think Health Pass Violates the most basic principles of France: free and equality National motto.
In an interview with TikTok last week, French President Emmanuel Macron urged: “Get vaccinated. Get vaccinated. Get vaccinated.”
Health Minister Olivier Véran stated that the pass will help avoid further restrictions on freedom, including curfews and lockdowns, which will be implemented as early as November. “This is inciting people to get vaccinated, get tested, or not go to crowded places,” he said. Parisian.
Véran said that France is successfully achieving its goal of at least 50 million people receiving at least one dose of vaccine by the end of this month, accounting for 85% of the eligible population.
When asked about the protests, the minister said that he regrets that “anti-vaccine, anti-science and anti-national” people have received so much attention.
“Regardless of the number of protesters, it will still be lower than the number of French vaccinated at the same time. They had twice as many on Saturday. I am ready to listen to their fears and do everything I can to reassure them, but there will always be There is enough time.”
Several French media reported that more and more young people under the age of 30 are advertising on social media with the purpose of meeting with people infected with the new coronavirus in order to contract the coronavirus and get healthy without being vaccinated or tested. Pass.
Figaro I recently talked to some of them, and they believed that they would not have more severe symptoms when they were young. “I prefer to seize it and isolate it so that my immune system will know how to overcome this disease naturally,” one person said.
Another student who would rather risk contracting the new crown virus told French TV: “In the worst case, I will be stuck in bed for a few days, in the best case I will not have any symptoms… If I end up in the intensive care unit obviously I will regret it, but honestly I don’t think that will happen.”
