Covid France, today Macron’s speech: unknown third dose and Green pass

Emmanuel Macron returns to address the French at 20 this evening, while the Coronavirus infections start again and worry the French authorities: the solemn speech, anticipates ‘Le Figaro’, should follow the one of last July 12, when Macron announced the adoption of the Green Pass to encourage vaccination. Then the surgery was followed by a record of vaccination doses, in a month – and in the height of summer – more than 10 million newly immunized. Macron hopes to obtain the same today in the face of the threat of a fifth wave of infections: “The president has always made the choice to have faith in the French. Everyone has a role to play and everyone has been doing it for months now”, comments ‘Elisha. The main question – continues the French newspaper in its previews – concerns the third dose of vaccine: whether or not to condition the granting of the Green Pass to the third dose ?. “We are thinking about it,” Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Friday, promising a “response soon”. Another question on which an answer is expected is whether Macron considers the epidemic now under control. It was he who set this condition in the speech of July 12 in order to restart the normal course of reforms. Starting with the pension plan he intends to talk about tonight at 8pm. “I will not start this reform until the epidemic is under control and recovery is guaranteed,” he said. “You have to know how to live with the virus”, explains a person close to the president, as if to suggest that there is the possibility of relaunching the reform before the end of the mandate. Macron’s image as a reformer on the eve of the presidential campaign is at stake. But this would not be enough. “There will be surprises”, warns an interlocutor of the president. On the subject of work, for example. With an eye to the presidential campaign, which after the sensation caused by Eric Zemmour, is now preparing to follow the Congress of the Républicains. And Macron won’t want to leave them alone on stage. This too is the stakes of his solemn speech, he concludes.