For lack of a reminder of the anti-Covid vaccine, some 560,000 people are likely to lose their pass on Saturday, the Ministry of Health told AFP on Friday evening. But the actual figure is difficult to determine.
Tens of thousands of health passes should be deactivated for lack of a reminder of the anti-Covid vaccine on Saturday, the deadline set by the government. In theory, some 560,000 people are likely to lose their passes on Saturday, the health ministry told AFP on Friday evening. But the actual figure is difficult to determine. If we exclude those who have been infected in the meantime (which extends the pass), some 15.9 million adults are supposed to have received their booster on Saturday, seven months after their previous injection. It is now a necessary condition to keep your pass.
According to the ministry, about 15.3 million of those people had their recalls as of Thursday. But that doesn’t mean the remaining 560,000 will lose their passes on Saturday. Among them, “there is a significant number who have presented an infection” without having yet notified it in the TousAntiCovid application, which extends the validity of their pass, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, explained on Wednesday before to test positive himself.
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In mid-December, people were worried (…), and in fact you haven’t heard of jumping passes
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At the end of November, by opening the recall to all adults, the government announced that it would be compulsory to extend the health pass (which will soon be replaced by a vaccination pass). The authorities had set January 15 as the deadline for the deactivation of the passes, in the absence of a reminder or a certificate of reinstatement. This does not mean that the booster must necessarily have been done before this date, which simply corresponds to the entry into force of the mechanism: from Saturday, the pass is deactivated for people who have not had a booster dose a maximum of seven months after the last injection (unless they have been infected in the meantime).
For those over 65 and people with comorbidities, who had access to the recall in September, this deadline was December 15. “In mid-December, people were worried (…), and in fact you have not heard of jumping passes”, put Mr. Véran into perspective. According to him, 98% of vaccinated people over the age of 65 had their booster seven months after their last injection. This proportion is “nearly 90%” three months after the last injection.
“The recall acceptability rate is enormous,” assured Mr. Véran, according to whom “recall is the rule, non-recall is the exception”. On February 15, the deadline for carrying out its booster dose will increase to four months – and no longer seven – after the previous injection.
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