Condition the health pass on a vaccination booster? According to Gabriel Attal, “it’s a track that makes its … – BFMTV

Recalling that the effectiveness of the vaccination against Covid-19 wanes over time, the government spokesperson encouraged the eligible population to receive a booster dose.

Condition the health pass to the injection of a booster dose? While six million people in France are eligible for a vaccine booster dose against Covid-19, only a third have received an injection. But government spokesman Gabriel Attal spoke on Wednesday of the possibility of making the validity of the health pass conditional on this new vaccination.

“It is a track that is gaining ground,” said Gabriel Attal, however keeping his audience in the dark, because on this subject, “no decision has been taken,” he added.

Prime Minister Jean Castex had already mentioned this idea on Tuesday, explaining that the High Authority for Health had been asked on this subject: “to the HAS to tell us whether or not we should extend the eligibility of the pass to the third dose”.

“Delaying your recall is exposing yourself unnecessarily”

Gabriel Attal also called for accelerating the vaccination campaign of the booster dose which he currently considers “insufficient in view of the challenges”. He recalled that “the effective protection conferred by the first two doses can diminish appreciably at the end of six months” and that “to delay its recall is to expose oneself unnecessarily”, in particular “at the time when the winter could make restart the circulation of the virus “.

The last days, epidemic surveillance indicators are no longer falling but are stagnating or even increasing, raising fears of the arrival of a new epidemic wave.

If Gabriel Attal did not announce the introduction of new restrictions, he did however declare that there would be no adjustment of the health pass on November 15, until then the deadline for this measure. But it will be adapted “as soon as possible”, that is to say when the health situation allows it, he explained.

The people currently eligible for the vaccine booster dose are: residents of nursing homes and USLDs, people over 65 living at home, those at very high risk of severe disease, with comorbidity, those who have received the Janssen vaccine, immunocompromised people and their entourage as well as ” all the professionals who take care of or support these vulnerable people “.