The French Parliament definitively adopted on Sunday, by a last vote of the deputies, the bill establishing the vaccine passport, which the government wants to implement as quickly as possible in the face of the resurgence of the COVID-19 epidemic.
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The text was adopted by 215 votes to 58, with 7 abstentions. Socialist parliamentarians have planned to seize the Constitutional Council to guarantee respect for “fundamental freedoms”, which will postpone the promulgation of the bill for a few days.
While some 300,000 contaminations have been recorded daily on average for a week, the government hopes for the implementation of the vaccine passport around January 20.
It will then be necessary to be able to justify a vaccination status to access leisure activities, restaurants and bars, fairs or interregional public transport. A negative test will no longer suffice, except to access health facilities and services.
The new passport will only apply from the age of 16, minors aged 12 to 15 remaining subject to the obligation to present the current health passport.
For this twelfth health text in two years, a week of examination by the two assemblies was initially scheduled, for application on January 15. The time has doubled, between hiccups and controversies, culminating in the statements of President Emmanuel Macron, decided to “piss off” the non-vaccinated.
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