The French Minister of European Affairs said that Britain’s restrictions on travelers from France appear to be “excessive” because France is trying to contain the rising number of Covid cases-these cases are less than one-third of the number of daily reported cases in the United Kingdom.
“We don’t think that the UK’s decisions are based solely on scientific foundations. We found them to be too far,” Clément Beaune told BFM TV. The UK had previously decided that tourists would need to be quarantined for 10 days after arriving from the UK. France Among the concerns about Beta variants.
Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, a member of the French European Parliament, said over the weekend that it was “difficult to understand” British rules, because the Beta version is mainly located in French overseas territories.
Beaune’s comments came as France tried to limit the rapid spread of the more contagious Delta variant, which resulted in a surge in the number of new infections. France reported more than 12,500 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, which is the third day that the number has remained above 10,000. In the UK, there are more than 48,000 new cases per day.
French government spokesperson Gabriel Attal said as Parliament is preparing to begin the process of incorporating Emmanuel Macron’s new bill into law: “From now on, it’s either comprehensive Vaccination, or a viral tsunami, no choice “Health Pass”.
The pass is designed to force people to be vaccinated by forcing people to provide vaccination certificates or negative tests to enter restaurants, shopping malls, long-distance trains or hospitals.
One Ipsos poll last week It was found that 62% of French people support health passes. After the president announced the plan last week, hundreds of thousands of people signed up for vaccinations. More than 43% of French people have been vaccinated twice.
About 114,000 people protested stricter vaccination regulations on the streets of France on Saturday, including mandatory injections for medical staff and nursing home staff. Some lawmakers received death threats after supporting the new vaccination rules. On Saturday night, after a fire broke out at a vaccination center in the Pyrenees-Atlantic region in southwestern France, the Bayonne prosecutor launched an arson investigation. Firefighters put out the fire in a tent set up for the vaccination center. The prosecutor said that flammable items were found nearby.
After some protesters used the yellow star symbol, the French government, human rights organizations, and relatives of Holocaust survivors were outraged-Jewish citizens of Nazi-occupied Europe were imposed on them to mark their deportation to death camps due to apartheid discrimination.
94-year-old Joseph Szwarc escaped the wartime roundup of Jews on the Vel d’Hiv bike path in Paris. He gave a commemorative speech in the capital, expressing his use of yellow stars for anti-vaccination “hate” Of the “outraged” protesters. He said: “You can’t imagine what effect this will have on me. Tears flooded my eyes. I wear a yellow star. I know what it is. It is in my flesh.” He called on “all our citizens” not to Let what he calls “the current wave of anti-Semitism and racism” continue.
Lawyer Arnold Krasfeld, a member of the Association of Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees from France, said: “The yellow star is the passport that causes you to die, and the vaccine can save people’s lives.” He said, shocking. Yes, the organizers of the parade did not exclude people wearing yellow stars. “For those who are ignorant, I want to say: Two thirds of the Jews in Europe have been wiped out.”
The French international coalition against racism and anti-Semitism, Licra, stated that the use of yellow stars in these protests amounts to denialism.
Attal said that “a small number of people use yellow stars against health passes,” calling them “absolutely shameful.”
He called the demonstrators against health passes and vaccines “on the verge of capriciousness and defeatism. This is a minority.”
