Covid-19: in which departments the health pass could be lifted soon? – Yahoo News

Following the improvement of the epidemic figures for several weeks, the executive indicated that the health pass could end in the departments where the virus circulates less. Which could be affected?

Can we see the light at the end of the tunnel? While it is undoubtedly still too early to say so, members of government show optimism for a few days. If Olivier Véran said in an interview with the Parisian this Saturday it was still too early to “relax the measures”, he also conceded that if the situation continues to improve as is currently the case, the executive would consider “gradually easing the restrictions there where the virus circulates the least first, then everywhere on the territory “, before specifying that” this relief could include the sanitary pass “.

Given the encouraging figures, a Defense Council will be held this Wednesday, September 22 on a possible adaptation of the restrictions in the territories where the virus circulates the least. On the set of BFM TV, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said that “around thirty departments where the incidence rate is below 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants” are affected by a drop in the circulation of Covid-19. If he did not indicate that an incidence rate below 50 would mean lifting the measures, it may well be one of the determining indicators.

A third of the departments concerned?

If this criterion is the one that ends up being retained by the government to lift the health pass, more than thirty departments would be concerned: Haute-Loire, Cantal, Dordogne, Corrèze, Tarn, Landes, Puy-de-Dôme, Creuse, Charente, Charente-Maritime, Allier, Vendée, Nièvre, Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Saône-et-Loire, Maine-et -Loire, Loir-et-Cher, Sarthe, Mayenne, Finistère, Orne, Manche, Eure, Calvados, Seine-Maritime, Somme, Pas-de-Calais, Aisne, the Ardennes, the Meuse, the Haute-Marne, the Vosges and Mayotte.

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According to the latest data from the health authorities, the situation is improving almost everywhere in France. Almost all of the departments have seen their incidence rate drop for at least 7 days, with the exception of Haute-Vienne, where it has increased by more than 28%.

Prime Minister Jean Castex is also working on a bill to extend the application of the health pass beyond November 15 and will present it to the Council of Ministers on October 13.

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