Health Pass soon to be extended via a bill – The HuffPost

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POLICY – We know (a little) more about the weeks to come. This Monday, September 20, the entourage of Jean Castex confirmed to AFP that a bill to extend the health pass was in preparation within the government. This text, “in preparation” will be presented “on October 13 in the Council of Ministers”, the same source continues. Objective: “a promulgation before the deadline of November 15” in order to “keep the legal framework allowing its use as long as the situation requires”, specifies Matignon in HuffPost.

The end of 2021 (and perhaps the beginning of 2022) therefore seems to be written again with the health pass. But with contours which could evolve compared to the current situation. Sunday, September 19, Gabriel Attal has indeed mentioned on BFMTV the possibility of adapting the system according to epidemic situations in the territories. “There is a reflection on how we can adapt the rules to the local situation,” said the government spokesperson, thus paving the way for a sort of regionalization of the health pass. A track that confirms what the Head of State himself had mentioned.

“As soon as the sanitary conditions allow it and, in my opinion, when I see the figures, it will not come so late”, we will be able to “allow ourselves in the territories where the virus circulates less quickly to lift certain constraints and to relive normally ”, declared Emmanuel Macron, saying he was ready to“ lift the pass, in the places where it is put, where the virus hardly circulates any more ”.

Regional approach

A chorus also sung by the Minister of Health. “If the situation continued to improve, we could gradually ease the restrictions, where the virus circulates the least first, then throughout the territory,” said Olivier Véran, specifying that these reductions could concern the health pass. And to insist this Monday: ”when you are in a period of decline of an epidemic wave, that the virus circulates less, we respect this principle of proportionality and territorialization of the measures, that is to say that we must to be able to say ‘this measure is no longer essential in this territory at this time’ ”. Local measures which will pass through implementing decrees decided by the Defense Council (a council is scheduled for Wednesday), and not by the bill mentioned today.

Pending a government decision, the menu below makes it possible to classify the departments into three categories: those with a low and declining incidence, those for which the incidence is medium or not decreasing and, finally, those for which the incidence is greater than 100 or rising. This can give an idea of ​​the areas where the restrictions could be lifted.

If the government therefore wishes to retain the possibility of using the health pass by extending its application for several months, no date has yet been set as to the final end of this device, which will depend above all on the epidemic situation.

However, as said above, the executive leaves the possibility, via decrees, of lifting the health pass in areas where the circulation of the virus does not require it. On the other hand, we no longer hear in the speech of the executive the idea of ​​removing the mask in places subject to the past.

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