A bracelet to replace the health pass tested in Gironde – The HuffPost

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CORONAVIRUS – Local authorities have agreed to this large-scale test which begins this Thursday, August 19. To facilitate entry into bars and restaurants which are now subject to health pass, around 20,000 bracelets will be made available to establishments in the most popular tourist spots in the Gironde.

This bracelet will serve as a health pass in certain places in Bordeaux, the Arcachon basin and Saint-Émilion. It is the departmental UMIH (Union of Trades and Industries of the Hospitality) which is at the origin of this experiment. It was “worked with the prefecture to get it right,” Martin Guespereau, delegate prefect for defense and security, told AFP on Wednesday.

“The health pass reduced activity”

“The principle: the customer, probably a regular at the establishment, volunteers to present the operator with proof of his complete vaccination schedule as well as his identity. From then on, he will receive an irremovable bracelet as a sesame, allowing him to access the establishment without being checked again ”, details the UMIH.

It is about “facilitating the access of the customers”, underlined to AFP the president of the UMIH-33, Laurent Tournier, arguing that “the sanitary pass has reduced significantly, even very significantly the activity ”of restaurateurs.

The bracelets, marked “UIMH 33 sanitary pass” in gray letters on a white background, must also bear the first three letters of the name of the establishment and the city where they have been allocated.

The police check the health pass, not the bracelet

But “the police will continue to check the pass and not the bracelet. We will judge: if it works, so much the better, if it does not work, we stop everything. We have the joystick ”, continues the prefect Martin Guespereau.

Laurent Lutse, president of the cafes, brasseries and nightclubs branch at UMIH, for his part told AFP, to have “made a request at the level of the Ministry of the Interior, because we have doubts about legal ”. According to him, “you need a QR code and not a number on the bracelet otherwise there will be fraud”.

In the meantime, Charlène Lagnier, director of the Orangerie, a renowned terrace restaurant within the confines of the Jardin public de Bordeaux, is already delighted: “It’s easy, it will be twice as fast for us, we will have less time wasted checking ”to see if customers are in good standing.

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