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2:38 p.m., December 18, 2021
The Minister of Health Olivier Véran announced this Saturday that the 3rd dose of vaccine against the coronavirus will be compulsory for caregivers and firefighters from January 30, 2022. “We do not want, as in Scotland, that we have 25 to 30% of caregivers who could not work, ”he said.
A third dose of anti-Covid vaccine will be mandatory for caregivers and firefighters from January 30, announced this Saturday the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, who mentioned the presence of “several hospital clusters of the Omicron variant”. “We will strengthen the vaccination obligation of caregivers and firefighters by integrating the third dose from January 30. We do not want, as in Scotland, that we have 25 to 30% of caregivers who could not work because of they would all be in contact and therefore in quarantine “, explained Olivier Véran on France Inter.
Several Omicron clusters in the Paris region
“We have several hospital clusters of the Omicron variant, particularly in the Paris region”, he noted. Prime Minister Jean Castex announced Friday evening that the health pass would become at the beginning of 2022 a “vaccine pass”, which can only be activated with a complete vaccination schedule and no longer with a simple negative test for Covid-19.
A bill will be presented in early January and should be debated in the hemicycle of the National Assembly from Monday, January 10. On this occasion, Olivier Véran also considers it useful to “ask the question of a health pass to go to work” and “to ask again the question of the identity check associated with the control of the pass”, “because there is too much frauds, because there are frauds “.
“We want the French to get vaccinated,” says Castex
“This is a question which was addressed in the initial text and which had been withdrawn within the framework of the parliamentary debate”, he added. “It’s simple, it’s clear, it’s crystal clear, it’s assumed: we want the French to be vaccinated,” he said, announcing that the government was going to “appeal, to strengthen the centers “of vaccination,” to soldiers, who will be able to be trained, but also and especially to people who are holders of a certificate of first aid “.
“It’s more than a million French people,” he said. Holders of a first aid certificate will be trained and then paid 25 euros per hour, according to the ministry.